Hippocrates quoted ’If an empyema does not rupture, death will occur’. Is single port medical thoracoscopy (S-MT) able ’to make it safely rupture’?

Georgia Hardavella (Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece), Georgia Hardavella, Nikos Papakonstantinou, Ioannis Karampinis, Houssein Mumbasa, Shereen Ajab, Mohammed Shafaat, Stavros Malagaris, Gerasimos Papavasileiou, Nikolaos Anastasiou

Source: International Congress 2015 – Interventional pulmonology for pleural diseases
Session: Interventional pulmonology for pleural diseases
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 2494

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Georgia Hardavella (Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece), Georgia Hardavella, Nikos Papakonstantinou, Ioannis Karampinis, Houssein Mumbasa, Shereen Ajab, Mohammed Shafaat, Stavros Malagaris, Gerasimos Papavasileiou, Nikolaos Anastasiou. Hippocrates quoted ’If an empyema does not rupture, death will occur’. Is single port medical thoracoscopy (S-MT) able ’to make it safely rupture’?. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, 2494

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