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Pigtail catheter drain in the treatment of empyema thoracis
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016Time for a randomised controlled trial of empyema treatment?Show More
Dear Editor
We were interested to read Pierrepoint MJ et al.’s short report in October’s edition of Archives,[1] which concluded that first line treatment of empyema thoracis should be with a pigtail catheter drain and urokinase. However, there is still on going debate as whether empyema thoracis is best treated like this[2] or by open thoracotomy and decortication.[3] It is interesting that the inpatient da...
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