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1 Thoracic empyema in patients with liver cirrhosis: Clinical characteristics and outcome analysis of thoracoscopic management  Ke-Cheng Chen, MD, Jou-Wei Lin, MD, MPH, PhD, Yu-Ting Tseng, MD, Shuenn-Wen Kuo, MD, Pei-Ming Huang, MD, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, MD, PhD, Jang-Ming Lee, MD, PhD, Jin-Shing Chen, MD, PhD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 143, Issue 5, Pages (May 2012) DOI: /j.jtcvs Copyright © 2012 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Algorithm for patient selection.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2012 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Propensity analysis. Distribution of propensity scores in the nonthoracoscopy and thoracoscopy groups before (A, n = 63) and after (B, n = 38) matching. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2012 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Kaplan–Meier plot of the survival-to-discharge in the non-thoracoscopy and thoracoscopy groups. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs ) Copyright © 2012 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions


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