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Review Multicenter Study
Treatment of complicated pleural fluid collections with image-guided drainage and intracavitary urokinase.
We report the results of image-guided catheter drainage with adjunctive enzymatic pleural debridement in the treatment of empyemas and other complicated pleural fluid collections. ⋯ Image-guided drainage with adjunctive pleural urokinase therapy is a safe and effective method of closed thoracostomy drainage of complicated pleural fluid collections and can obviate surgery in most cases.