Thoracoscopic Drainage and Debridement of Empyema

Kay, Saundra M.; Rothenberg, Steven S.

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Saundra M. Kay⁶ &
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The Mother and Child Hospital at Presbetyrian St Lukes, 1601 East 19th Avenue Suite 5500, Denver, CO, 80218, USA
Saundra M. Kay
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, 1601 East 18 Avenue Suite 5500, Denver, Colorado, 80218, USA
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Department of Pediatric Surgery Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Klaas M. A. Bax MD, PhD, FRCS
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, 1600 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA
Keith E. Georgeson MD
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, 1601 E 19th Ave, Suite 5500, Denver, Colorado, 80218, USA
Steven S. Rothenberg MD
Hôpital Lenval Department of Pediatric Surgery, Fondation Lenval, 57, Avenue de la Californie, 06200, Nice, France
Jean-Stéphane Valla MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong
C K Yeung MD, PhD

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Kay, S.M., Rothenberg, S.S. (2008). Thoracoscopic Drainage and Debridement of Empyema. In: Bax, K.M.A., Georgeson, K.E., Rothenberg, S.S., Valla, JS., Yeung, C.K. (eds) Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49910-7_13

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