Nine hospitals participated in the trial. The children were aged 1 month to 14 years, and all had community-acquired pneumonia with fever, cough, parenchymal infiltrate on x-ray, and pleural effusion.

The pleural space is defined by the visceral pleura, which covers the lung, and the parietal pleura, which covers the chest wall, diaphragm, and mediastinum. It is estimated that pleural effusion ...

Empyema is considered to be a sub-classification of parapneumonic pleural effusion. A parapneumonic effusion describes the build-up of activated pleural fluid which is associated with a lung infection ...

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