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Empyema
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Empyema [Disease/Finding]
An accumulation of pus in a body cavity, usually the pleural space.
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Empyema with Fistula
Empyema, Gallbladder
Empyema, Pleural
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Empyema Hospitalizations Increased in US Children Despite Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
S. Li
,
D. Tancredi
Pediatrics
2010
Corpus ID: 33176058
OBJECTIVE: To determine if the incidence of empyema among children in the United States has changed since the introduction of the…
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Increasing incidence of empyema complicating childhood community-acquired pneumonia in the United States.
Carlos G. Grijalva
,
J. P. Nuorti
,
Y. Zhu
,
M. Griffin
Clinical infectious diseases : an official…
2010
Corpus ID: 15272524
BACKGROUND The incidence of childhood pneumonia decreased following introduction of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Human Infection with Fusobacterium necrophorum (Necrobacillosis), with a Focus on Lemierre's Syndrome
T. Riordan
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
2007
Corpus ID: 32913171
SUMMARY Summary: Human infection with Fusobacterium necrophorum usually involves F. necrophorum subsp. funduliforme rather than F…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Comparison of urokinase and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for treatment of childhood empyema.
S. Sonnappa
,
G. Cohen
,
+5 authors
A. Jaffe
American journal of respiratory and critical care…
2006
Corpus ID: 20828422
BACKGROUND Despite increasing incidence and morbidity, little evidence exists to inform the best management approach in childhood…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
An epidemiological investigation of a sustained high rate of pediatric parapneumonic empyema: risk factors and microbiological associations.
C. Byington
,
LaShonda Y Spencer
,
+8 authors
M. Samore
Clinical infectious diseases : an official…
2002
Corpus ID: 40482906
We investigated the increasing incidence of pediatric empyema during the 1990s at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Randomised trial of intrapleural urokinase in the treatment of childhood empyema.
A. Thomson
,
J. Hull
,
M. R. Kumar
,
C. Wallis
,
I. B. Balfour Lynn
Thorax
2002
Corpus ID: 351175
BACKGROUND The role of intrapleural fibrinolytic agents in the treatment of childhood empyema has not been established. A…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A randomized trial of empyema therapy.
M. Wait
,
S. Sharma
,
J. Hőhn
,
A. D. Dal Nogare
Chest
1997
Corpus ID: 45446107
STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the optimal treatment of empyema thoracis (within the fibrinopurulent phase of illness) comparing…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The clinical course and management of thoracic empyema.
A. Ferguson
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R. Prescott
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J. Selkon
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D. Watson
,
C. Swinburn
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of…
1996
Corpus ID: 43640454
We report a prospective multi-centre study of the clinical course and hospital management of thoracic empyema in 119 patients…
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Enteral versus parenteral feeding. Effects on septic morbidity after blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma.
K. Kudsk
,
M. Croce
,
+5 authors
R. O. Brown
Annals of surgery
1992
Corpus ID: 3108487
To investigate the importance of route of nutrient administration on septic complications after blunt and penetrating trauma, 98…
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Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
TOXIC-SHOCK SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH PHAGE-GROUP-I STAPHYLOCOCCI
J. Todd
,
M. Fishaut
,
F. Kapral
,
T. Welch
The Lancet
1978
Corpus ID: 54231145
Abstract Seven children (aged 8-17 years) presented with a high fever, headache, confusion, conjunctival hyperaemia, a…
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