Percutaneous management of complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema after surgical tube thoracostomy failure in children: a retrospective study
Author(s) -
Türkmen Turan Çiftçi,
Devrim Akıncı,
Emre Ünal,
Gönül Tanır,
Hakan Artaş,
Okan Akhan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
diagnostic and interventional radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1305-3612
pISSN - 1305-3825
DOI - 10.5152/dir.2021.20331
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracostomy , empyema , percutaneous , surgery , catheter , urokinase , retrospective cohort study , streptokinase , chest tube , bronchopleural fistula , parapneumonic effusion , pleural effusion , pneumothorax , lung , pleural fluid , myocardial infarction , pneumonectomy
We aimed to evaluate the results of percutaneous management of complicated parapneumonic effusions (PPE) and empyema after surgical tube thoracostomy failure in children.
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