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J. Danna (1931)
THE TREATMENT OF EMPYEMA BY ASPIRATION AND AIR REPLACEMENT WITHOUT DRAINAGE: REVIEW OF THIRTY-FIVE CASESJAMA, 96
E. McEnery, Joseph Brennemann (1929)
ASPIRATION IN EMPYEMA OF CHILDRENJAMA, 93
A. Ochsner, I. Gage (1931)
ACUTE EMPYEMA THORACIS. A STATISTICAL STUDY WITH A COMPARISON OF THE WHITE AND COLORED RACESAnnals of Surgery, 94
In 1929 we1 reported a series of thirty-three consecutive cases of empyema in children, with a mortality of 9.1 per cent. Of these patients, twenty-eight, or 85 per cent, were cured by aspiration alone. One infant of 4 months of age recovered by spontaneous rupture through a bronchus. One older child was operated on after a number of aspirations had been done because the heart remained far to the right of its normal position. In the light of subsequent experience we feel sure that this child, too, would have recovered by aspiration alone. There were three deaths. One of these occurred in a child who went home against advice and died a week later; the second in an infant who died of pneumococcus septicemia and meningitis and in whom the incidental empyema cavity had a capacity, at autopsy, of less than 1 fluid ounce (30 cc.), and the third
American journal of diseases of children – American Medical Association
Published: Oct 1, 1932
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