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Differentiation Between the Malignant Mesothelioma of Pleura and Pleural Metastasis with Contrast Enhanced CT, Is It Possible?

Siriraj Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: To compare CT findings between malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and metastatic pleural disease (MPD). Materials and Methods: CT chest images of 157 cases of pathologically-proven malignant pleural disease (21 MPM, 136 MPD) were ...
Krittachat Butnian, Nisa Muangman, Kanyarat Totanarungroj, Suwimon Wonglaksanapimon   +3 more
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Malignant Pleural Effusions: Updates in Diagnosis and Management

Life, 2022
Malignant pleural effusions remain a significant clinical problem resulting in greater than 125,000 hospitalizations per year and leading to over 5 billion dollars in healthcare utilization costs.
Stephen M. Hughes, Jacob Jonas Carmichael   +1 more
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Establishing a Multidisciplinary Team-Based Pleural Service in the Era of Financial Austerity: The Role of the Thoracic Surgeon

Medicina, 2023
Medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy has become, after bronchoscopy, the second most commonly utilized endoscopic procedure in interventional pulmonology. Due to their common origin, medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS)
Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Tatiana Sidiropoulou, Ioannis P. Tomos, Christos F. Kampolis, Thomas Raptakis, Periklis I. Tomos   +5 more
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Recurrent chest pain as a rare presentation of extra‐pelvic endometriosis

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Periodic chest pain, with bloody pleural effusion should raise the suspicion of pleural endometriosis as a well‐known, but a rare condition in clinical practice.
Mousa Hussein, Mutaz Albakri, Shanima Ismail, Abbas Alabbas, Samir Al Hyassat   +4 more
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Pleural Fluid Resolution Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusion

Life, 2023
Malignant pleural effusion is associated with a poor prognosis and, while risk stratification models exist, prior studies have not evaluated pleural fluid resolution and its association with survival.
Christina R. MacRosty, Amber Wright, Agathe Ceppe, Sohini Ghosh, A. Cole Burks, Jason A. Akulian   +5 more
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Perioperative Pleural Drainage in Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Analysis from a High-Volume Liver Transplant Center [PDF]

, 2020
BACKGROUND Pleural effusions represent a common complication after liver transplantation (LT) and chest drain (CD) placement is frequently necessary. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, adult LT recipients between 2009 and 2016 were ...
Aigner, Felix, Brandl, Andreas, Dargie, Richard, Dziodzio, Tomasz, Eurich, Dennis, Jara, Maximilian, Kotsch, Katja, Pratschke, Johann, Ritschl, Paul Viktor, Sauer, Igor M., Schmelzle, Moritz, Sponholz, Felix, Wiering, Leke, Öllinger, Robert   +13 more
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Case Report: Indwelling Pleural Catheter Based Management of Refractory Hepatic Hydrothorax as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for decompensated liver disease, and by extension for hepatic hydrothorax. Persistent pleural effusions make it challenging for patients to maintain physiological fitness for transplantation.
Mayurun Selvan, Hannah Collins, William Griffiths, William Gelson, Jurgen Herre   +4 more
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Early Contrast Enhancement: a novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging biomarker of pleural malignancy [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Pleural Malignancy (PM) is often occult on subjective radiological assessment. We sought to define a novel, semi-objective Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) biomarker of PM, targeted to increased tumour microvessel density (MVD) and ...
Alexander, Laura, Blyth, Kevin G., Cowell, Gordon W., Dick, Craig, Foster, John E., Humphreys, Catherine A., Kelly, Caroline A., Noble, Colin, Stobo, David B., Tsim, Selina, Woodward, Rosemary   +10 more
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Pleural Involvement in IgG4-Related Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Diagnostics, 2021
Diagnostic work-up of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) pleural involvement is a complex task, as there is a broad spectrum of differential diagnoses to consider.
Federico Mei, Massimiliano Mancini, Giulio Maurizi, Andrea Vecchione, Lina Zuccatosta, Erino Angelo Rendina, Stefano Gasparini   +6 more
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Mesothelioma and thymic tumors: Treatment challenges in (outside) a network setting [PDF]

, 2019
The management of patients with mesothelioma and thymic malignancy requires continuous multidisciplinary expertise at any step of the disease. A dramatic improvement in our knowledge has occurred in the last few years, through the development of ...
Girard, N, Grassino, M, Imbimbo, M, Maury, J, Vitale, F   +4 more
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