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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2026

Surgical treatment of acute empyema caused by methicillin-resistant

Nozomu Motono, Mashahito Ishikawa, Shun Iwai, Yoshihito Iijima, Hidetaka Uramoto

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nozomu MotonoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Mashahito IshikawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Shun IwaiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Yoshihito IijimaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
Hidetaka UramotoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 75-year-old man presented to our hospital with fever and bloody sputum. Chest computed tomography revealed a mass lesion occupying the left lower lobe with surrounding infiltrative shadows.

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acute empyemadecorticationmethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusnon-small cell lung cancer

Identifiers

PMID42338713
PMCPMC13285986

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