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Asbestos-related pleural disease

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2013
The image shows asbestos plaques on the right parietal pleura of a 58-year-old former shipyard worker who died of acute suppurative bronchitis. He also had cor pulmonale and congestive heart failure.
Stephen A. Geller, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos   +1 more
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Ultrasound-Guided Abrams Pleural Biopsy vs CT-Guided Tru-Cut Pleural Biopsy in Malignant Pleural Disease, a 3-Year Follow-up Study

Lung, 2016
PurposeConventional Abrams biopsy shows low sensitivity in suspected malignant pleural disease. There are limited data on the improvement in sensitivity by adding in image guidance.
Parthipan Sivakumar, Deepak Jayaram, Deepak Rao, Vignesh Dhileepan, Irfan Ahmed, Liju Ahmed   +5 more
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British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease

Thorax, 2023
pleural effusion treated with indwelling pleural catheters, do intrapleural agents (talc or other pleurodesis agents) improve clinical outcomes?
M. Roberts, N. Rahman, N. Maskell, A. Bibby, K. Blyth, J. Corcoran, A. Edey, M. Evison, D. de Fonseka, R. Hallifax, S. Harden, I. Lawrie, Eric Lim, D. McCracken, R. Mercer, Eleanor K Mishra, A. Nicholson, F. Noorzad, K. Opstad, M. Parsonage, A. Stanton, S. Walker   +21 more
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Advances in the management of pleural disease

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2013
Pleural disease affects over 3000 people per million population annually. Consequently, it represents a significant proportion of the respiratory physician's workload and can present to clinicians of all backgrounds in primary and secondary care. Pleural effusions have been reported in association with over 50 different conditions; some related to ...
J. Corcoran, R. Hallifax, N. Rahman
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Staging by Thoracoscopy in potentially radically treatable Lung Cancer associated with Minimal Pleural Effusion (STRATIFY): protocol of a prospective, multicentre, observational study

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2023
Introduction Recurrence rate following radical therapy for lung cancer remains high, potentially reflecting occult metastatic disease, and better staging tools are required.
Selina Tsim, Kevin G Blyth, Najib M Rahman, Matthew Evison, John Corcoran, Nick Maskell, Elspeth Banks, Jenny Ferguson, Seamus Grundy, Caroline Kelly, Laura Alexander, Shumaila Shad, Mark Neilly, Matthew Tate, Baryab Zahra, Merna Saleh, Gordon Cowell, Nicola Downer, Andrew Stanton   +18 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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Awake Uniportal VATS for the Evacuation of an Extensive, Superinfected Hemothorax in a Patient with Advanced Mediastinal SMARCA4-Deficient Tumor

The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2023
Background The so-called nonintubated or awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (NIVATS) is performed on spontaneously breathing patients, which was shown to reduce postoperative complications and shorten hospital stay.
Dominik Lobinger, Alicia Reiche, Andreas Hiebinger, Johannes Bodner   +3 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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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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