TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Complicated Pneumonia
A1  - Ampofo, Krow
A1  - Shah, Samir S.
A2  - Shah, Samir S.
A2  - Kemper, Alex R.
A2  - Ratner, Adam J.
PY  - 2019
T2  - Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2e
AB  - The  term  complicated  pneumonia  in  this  chapter  will  refer  to  pneumonia  complicated  by  the  accumulation  of  fluid  or  purulent  material  in  the  pleural  space;  this  term  includes  parapneumonic  effusions  and  empyema.  The  frequency  of  complicated  pneumonia  among  all  children  with  community-acquired  pneumonia  (CAP)  is  not  known.  Complicated  pneumonia  has  been  reported  to  occur  in  6–8%  of  children  hospitalized  with  CAP.1,2  In  the  Centers  for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention  (CDC)  Etiology  of  Pneumonia  in  the  Community  study,  complicated  pneumonia  was  reported  in  4%  of  children  hospitalized  with  CAP  from  2010  through  2012.3  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1157321815
ER  -