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Background Parapneumonic empyema thoracis is a rare complication of bacterial pneumonia in children that emencely increases the morbidity. Classically parepneumonic effusions are divided into three stages. Stage I or exudative stage, Stage II or fibrinopurulent stage and stage III or organised effusion stage. The present study was designed to highlight the role of open decortication by thoracotomy in cases of para-pneumonic empyema of stage II and stage III disease in children.
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