Santhosh Regini Benjamin, Rijoy Kolakkada Panakkada, Shalom Sylvester Andugala, Birla Roy Gnanamuthu, Vinay Murahari Rao, Deepak Narayanan, Aamir Mohammad, Mallampati Sameer
INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE: Empyema thoracis (ET) is defined as the accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity. Early stages of ET are treated medically and the late stages surgically. Decortication, thoracoplasty, window procedure (Eloesser flap procedure) and rib resections are the open surgical procedures executed. There are no strict guidelines available in developing nations to guide surgical decision-making, as to which procedure is to be followed. METHODS: Details of all adult patients treated surgically for ET, between the years 2009 and 2019, and maintained in a live database in our institute, were retrieved and analysed...
May 2021: Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery