| 1 |
Shin JA, Chang YS, Kim TH, Haam SJ, Kim HJ, Ahn CM, et al. Surgical decortication as the first-line treatment for pleural empyema. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013;145:933-9.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 2 |
Rahman NM, Maskell NA, Davies CW, Hedley EL, Nunn AJ, Gleeson FV, et al. The relationship between chest tube size and clinical outcome in pleural infection. Chest 2010;137:536-43.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 3 |
Maskell NA, Davies CW, Nunn AJ, Hedley EL, Gleeson FV, Miller R, et al. U.K. Controlled trial of intrapleural streptokinase for pleural infection. N Engl J Med 2005;352:865-74.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 4 |
Corcoran JP, Hallifax R, Rahman NM. New therapeutic approaches to pleural infection. Curr Opin Infect Dis 2013;26:196-202.
DOI
|
| 5 |
Rahman NM, Maskell NA, West A, Teoh R, Arnold A, Mackinlay C, et al. Intrapleural use of tissue plasminogen activator and DNase in pleural infection. N Engl J Med 2011;365:518-26.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 6 |
Janda S, Swiston J. Intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy for treatment of adult parapneumonic effusions and empyemas: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Chest 2012;142:401-11.
DOI
|
| 7 |
Ravaglia C, Gurioli C, Tomassetti S, Casoni GL, Romagnoli M, Gurioli C, et al. Is medical thoracoscopy efficient in the management of multiloculated and organized thoracic empyema? Respiration 2012;84:219-24.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 8 |
Chambers A, Routledge T, Dunning J, Scarci M. Is videoassisted thoracoscopic surgical decortication superior to open surgery in the management of adults with primary empyema? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2010;11:171-7.
DOI
|
| 9 |
Chung JH, Lee SH, Kim KT, Jung JS, Son HS, Sun K. Optimal timing of thoracoscopic drainage and decortication for empyema. Ann Thorac Surg 2014;97:224-9.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 10 |
Davies HE, Davies RJ, Davies CW; BTS Pleural Disease Guideline Group. Management of pleural infection in adults: British Thoracic Society Pleural Disease Guideline 2010. Thorax 2010;65 Suppl 2:ii41-53.
|
| 11 |
Aleman C, Alegre J, Monasterio J, Segura RM, Armadans L, Angles A, et al. Association between inflammatory mediators and the fibrinolysis system in infectious pleural effusions. Clin Sci (Lond) 2003;105:601-7.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 12 |
Kroegel C, Antony VB. Immunobiology of pleural inflammation: potential implications for pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy. Eur Respir J 1997;10:2411-8.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 13 |
Idell S, Girard W, Koenig KB, McLarty J, Fair DS. Abnormalities of pathways of fibrin turnover in the human pleural space. Am Rev Respir Dis 1991;144:187-94.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 14 |
Maskell NA, Batt S, Hedley EL, Davies CW, Gillespie SH, Davies RJ. The bacteriology of pleural infection by genetic and standard methods and its mortality significance. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;174:817-23.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 15 |
Marks DJ, Fisk MD, Koo CY, Pavlou M, Peck L, Lee SF, et al. Thoracic empyema: a 12-year study from a UK tertiary cardiothoracic referral centre. PLoS One 2012;7:e30074.
DOI
|
| 16 |
Kim YJ, Cha SI, Kwon JS, Yoo SS, Jun HJ, Kim EJ, et al. Treatment results and prognostic factors of complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema. Tuberc Respir Dis 2007;63:24-30.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 17 |
Menzies SM, Rahman NM, Wrightson JM, Davies HE, Shorten R, Gillespie SH, et al. Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection. Thorax 2011;66:658-62.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 18 |
Brutsche MH, Tassi GF, Gyorik S, Gokcimen M, Renard C, Marchetti GP, et al. Treatment of sonographically stratified multiloculated thoracic empyema by medical thoracoscopy. Chest 2005;128:3303-9.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 19 |
Grijalva CG, Zhu Y, Nuorti JP, Griffin MR. Emergence of parapneumonic empyema in the USA. Thorax 2011;66:663-8.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
| 20 |
Burgos J, Falco V, Pahissa A. The increasing incidence of empyema. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2013;19:350-6.
DOI
ScienceOn
|
webmaster
