Empyema and Ruptured Lung Abscess in Adults
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Empyema and Ruptured Lung Abscess in Adults.
This brief annotation concerns 18 adult patients with empyema complicating the rupture of a lung abscess into the pleural cavity who were referred to my service during the period 1957 to 1962. By different methods of treatment all these patients have been returned to health, but in some earlier cases the illness was painful and prolonged and multiple operations were necessary to attain a final ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1964
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.19.6.492