Empyema editorial

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
² Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Editorial

Daniel G Dunlap et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;10(Suppl 33):S3911-S3913.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.08.135.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
² Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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