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Empyema after image-guided percutaneous intercostal drainage of subdiaphragmatic collection: a case series

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Published in 2022 at "Journal of Thoracic Disease"

DOI: 10.21037/jtd-22-272

Abstract: Background Treatment of subdiaphragmatic collection by intercostal image-guided drain placement is associated with a risk of pleural complications including potentially life-threatening pleural empyema. Descriptions of patient characteristics and clinical course of postinterventional pleural empyema are… read more here.

Keywords: ten patients; subdiaphragmatic collection; empyema; intercostal drainage ... See more keywords