Treatment of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema: conservative view

R. Loddenkemper, D. Kaiser, W. Frank

Source: Eur Respir Mon; 2004: 29: 199–207
Disease area: Respiratory infections, Thoracic oncology

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