Surgical treatment in parapneumonic effusion: what's new?

I. Petrakis (Heraklion, Greece)

Source: Annual Congress 2007 - Parapneumonic effusion: diagnosis and treatment are a matter of timing
Session: Parapneumonic effusion: diagnosis and treatment are a matter of timing
Session type: Symposium
Number: 4401
Disease area: Thoracic oncology

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