Two Decades of Thoracic Empyema in Ontario, Canada

Chest. 2020 May;157(5):1114-1116. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.11.040.

Authors

Rahul Nayak¹, Susan B Brogly², Katherine Lajkosz³, M Diane Lougheed⁴, Dimitri Petsikas⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Kingston, ON, Canada. Electronic address: rnayak@qmed.ca.
² Department of Surgery, Kingston, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, ON, Canada.
³ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Kingston, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Kingston, ON, Canada.

PMID: 32386638
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.11.040

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Empyema, Pleural / epidemiology*
Empyema, Pleural / mortality
Empyema, Pleural / therapy*
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Ontario / epidemiology
Thoracoscopy
Thoracostomy
Thoracotomy