[Surgical treatment of thoracic empyema].
During the seven-year period from 1986-1992 85 patients with a purulent process in the pleural cavity were treated. The author classifies the disease by its aetiology and mentions different surgical approaches. Treatment was successful in the group of pneumonic empyemas and the author mentions also the marked decline of empyemas after resections of the lungs during the last three years.
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Chirurgická klinika Fakultní nemocnice, Plzen.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
Chirurgická lécba empyémů hrudníku.