Surgery
Volume 23, Issue 11 , Pages 398-400 , 1 November 2005

Empyema thoracis

  • RS Jutley

      Affiliations

    • R S Jutley is a Specialist Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Trent region, UK
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  • DA Waller

      Affiliations

    • D A Waller is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leicester and Warwick Medical School, Warwick, UK

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PII: S0263-9319(06)70157-0

doi: 10.1383/surg.2005.23.11.398

Surgery
Volume 23, Issue 11 , Pages 398-400 , 1 November 2005

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