title: [Results of the surgical treatment of pleural empyema after lung resection and pneumonectomy].
abstract: Pneumothorax was treated by operation in 189 patients, after pneumonectomy in 111 of them and after various types of lung resection in 78. The treatment was complex in character but surgery was the principal method. The choice of the operation was guided by various factors, but the determinants were the phase of the empyema, the presence of a bronchial fistula, and the volume of the first lung resection. Postoperative complications occurred in 32.8% of cases, lethality was 11.5%. Complications developed most frequently after extensive and traumatic operations for removal of remaining parts of the lung after the type of pleuropneumonectomy. On the whole, operative methods allowed recovery or improvement to be achieved in 76.2% of patients in whom nonoperative methods failed to cure of produce a stable remission.
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Ots
authors.forename: Iu V
authors.initials: IuV
authors.lastname: Biriukov
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Bronskaia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004653:Empyema / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Rezul'taty operativnogo lecheniia émpiemy plevry posle rezektsii legkogo i pnevmonéktomii.