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Enhancing treatment approaches for postpneumonectomy empyema: exploring the role of video-assisted thoracic surgery

Konstantinos Grapatsas
1
,
Arben Xhambazi
1
,
Mohammad Jamshidof
1
,
Emmanouil Dimopoulos
2
,
Benjamin Ehle
3
,
Athanasios Papatriantafyllou
4
,
Francesk Mulita
5
,
Levan Tchabashvili
5
,
Elias Liolis
6
,
Konstantinos Tasios
5
,
Andreas Antzoulas
5
,
Dimitrios Litsas
7
,
Konstantinos Skevis
8
,
Nikolas Drakos
5
,
Efstratios Koletsis
9
,
Manfred Dahm
4
,
Vasileios Leivaditis
4

  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
  2. Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Marienhospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  3. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Asklepios Lung Clinic Munich-Gauting, Gauting, Germany
  4. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, WestpfalzKlinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  5. Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
  6. Department of Oncology, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
  7. Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Lamia, Lamia, Greece
  8. Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Rhodos, Rhodos, Greece
  9. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2024; 21 (3): 167-171
Online publish date: 2024/09/24
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