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Dry Small Pleural Dissemination of Adenocarcinoma of the Lung Preoperatively Detected by PET/CT: A Report of Two Cases [PDF]
, 2008 Dry pleural dissemination in non-small cell lung cancer, defined as solid pleural metastasis of lung cancer without pleural eff usion, is a condition occurring in T4 lung cancer.
Aoe, Motoi +6 more
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Characteristics of pleural effusion with a high adenosine deaminase level: a case–control study
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Increased pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) is useful for diagnosing tuberculous pleurisy (TB), but high ADA levels are associated with other diseases.
Masafumi Shimoda +8 more
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Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma mimicking a malignant pleural mesothelioma: Clues for diagnosis
Thoracic Cancer, 2019 Pleural metastasis of thyroid carcinoma is very rarely encountered in the evaluation of pleural effusion and diagnosis may be challenging. However, an anaplastic transformation of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), although a rare condition, should be ...
Thibaut Capron +5 more
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ERJ Open Research, 2018 Talc pleurodesis is used to avoid recurrences in malignant pleural effusions or pneumothorax. The lack of lung sliding detected by chest ultrasonography (CUS) after talc application is indicative of the effectiveness of pleurodesis.
Rachid Tazi-Mezalek +10 more
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Thoracic endometriosis presenting as hemopneumothorax
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2022 Thoracic endometriosis is very rare. Usually, the thorax is the most frequent affected site outside the pelvis. Common symptoms include chest pain, dyspnea, and hemoptysis. Common manifestations include pneumothorax, hemothorax, and pulmonary or pleural
Ahel El Haj Chehade +4 more
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Identification of Cancer -- Mesothelioma Disease Using Logistic Regression and Association Rule [PDF]
American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 2018,
11(4):1310.1319, 2018 Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) or malignant mesothelioma (MM) is an atypical, aggressive tumor that matures into cancer in the pleura, a stratum of tissue bordering the lungs. Diagnosis of MPM is difficult and it accounts for about seventy-five percent of all mesothelioma diagnosed yearly in the United States of America.
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Risk of Bias in Chest Radiography Deep Learning Foundation Models [PDF]
, 2022 Purpose: To analyze a recently published chest radiography foundation model for the presence of biases that could lead to subgroup performance disparities across biological sex and race. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study used 127,118 chest radiographs from 42,884 patients (mean age, 63 [SD] 17 years; 23,623 male, 19,261 female) from the
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Predicting Cancer Using Supervised Machine Learning: Mesothelioma [PDF]
Technology and Health Care, 29(1), 45-58 (2021), 2021 Background: Pleural Mesothelioma (PM) is an unusual, belligerent tumor that rapidly develops into cancer in the pleura of the lungs. Pleural Mesothelioma is a common type of Mesothelioma that accounts for about 75% of all Mesothelioma diagnosed yearly in the U.S. Diagnosis of Mesothelioma takes several months and is expensive.
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Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2006 Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and subsequent management of patients with pleural disease. The presence of a pleural abnormality is usually suggested following a routine chest x-ray, with a number of imaging modalities available for further characterization.
Qureshi, N, Gleeson, F
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Is Adenosine Deaminase in Pleural Fluid a Useful Marker for Differentiating Tuberculosis from Lung Cancer or Mesothelioma in Japan, a Country with Intermediate Incidence of Tuberculosis? [PDF]
, 2011 The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of the determination of adenosine deaminase (ADA) level in pleural fluid for the differential diagnosis between tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) and malignant pleural effusion (MPE) in Japan, a ...
Aoe, Keisuke +9 more
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