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Letter

Should central venous catheters be used to drain pleural effusions?

Andrew MacDuff1 and Ian S Grant2 email

1Locum Registrar Respiratory Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

2Consultant Intensive Care Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Critical Care 2004, 8:56doi:10.1186/cc2447

Published: 2 January 2004

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

We read with interest the article by Singh and coworkers [1] describing the use of central venous catheters to drain pleural effusions.


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