Open AccessSurgical management of empyema thoracis – experience of a decade in a tertiary care centre in India
Author(s) -
Santhosh Regini Benjamin,
Rijoy Kolakkada Panakkada,
Shalom Sylvester Andugala,
Birla Roy Gnanamuthu,
Vinay Murahari Rao,
Deepak Narayanan,
Aamir Mohammad,
Sameer Mallampati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-020-01085-x
Subject(s) - medicine , decortication , surgery , tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , empyema , cardiothoracic surgery , etiology , general surgery , physics , pathology , optics
Empyema thoracis (ET) is defined as the accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity. Early stages of ET are treated medically and the late stages surgically. Decortication, thoracoplasty, window procedure (Eloesser flap procedure) and rib resections are the open surgical procedures executed. There are no strict guidelines available in developing nations to guide surgical decision-making, as to which procedure is to be followed.