Imaging guided streptokinase injected through small bore pigtail tail catheter in management of complicated empyema in pediatrics

Purpose: This study was done targeting the role of streptokinase injected through pigtail catheter in treatment of pleural empyema in pediatric. Subjects and methods: 15 patients were involved in this study of age ranged from 5 months to 15 years were subjected to STK injection once daily until the...

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Main Authors: Sherif El-Sayed Mahmoud Hegab, Maged Mohamed El-Sayed Eissa, Amr Aly Aly Abdel-Kerim, Mohamed Said Abel Aziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-03-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378603X16302200