@article{c120e6e76be642c78d39fc37005ac16e,
title = "Optimal management of complicated empyema",
author = "\{de Souza\}, Almerindo and Offner, \{Patrick J\} and Moore, \{Ernest E\} and Biffl, \{Walter L\} and Haenel, \{James B\} and Franciose, \{Reginald J\} and Burch, \{Jon M\}",
note = "Multiple therapeutic options are available for the management of empyema. Multiloculation is not a contraindication to an initial trial of chest tube drainage or fibrinolytic therapy. In contrast, CT evidence of a pleural peel uniformly predicted failure of nonoperative treatment.",
year = "2000",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00499-2",
language = "American English",
volume = "180",
journal = "American Journal of Surgery",
issn = "1879-1883",
number = "6",
}