title: [Surgical therapy of chronic pyothorax].
abstract: A series of 224 patients with chronic pyothorax were treated in our hospital from 1959 to 1985. This paper reported the cure rate, relapse rate and quality of life after operation. One of the 224 patients died from shock within 24 hours after operation. 197 patients cuts (91.6%) healed within one month after operation, but 63 patients had recurrence of pyothorax, abscess of thoracic wall or fistula within three years after operation. By re-operation and/or local drug treatment, 49 of the 63 patients healed, comparing the living activity before and after operation in 96 patients showed that the surgical intervention might give them some improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Second Pneumology, Hospital.
authors.forename: X D
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004653:Empyema / Q000601:surgery; D004654:Empyema, Tuberculous / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D013905:Thoracoplasty