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Value of Detection of CAIX in the Pleural Effusion and Its Sediment in the Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2015 Background and objective Carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) is widely expressed in a variety of malignant tumors, including-lung cancer. Our previous study has shown that the serum level of soluble form of carbonic anhydrase IX (s-CAIX) was significantly ...
Lina PENG +4 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2016 Background: Despite the fact that Light’s criteria remain the gold standard approach in differentiating exudates from transudates, several fluid markers have been introduced for establishing the cause of pleural effusion to differentiate types of pleural
Heba M. Atef +3 more
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Malignant Pleural Effusion and Its Current Management: A Review
Medicina, 2019 Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is an exudative effusion with malignant cells. MPE is a common symptom and accompanying manifestation of metastatic disease.
Kristijan Skok +3 more
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Journal of Cancer, 2023 Purpose Most malignant effusion is secondary to metastases to the pleura or peritoneum and portend poor oncological outcomes. Malignant effusion has different tumor microenvironment from primary tumor, containing a variety of cytokines and immune cells ...
Xueying Mao +9 more
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Management of malignant pleural effusions [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2001 ⇓Malignant pleural effusions are a common clinical problem in patients with neoplastic disease. In one post mortem series, malignant effusions were found in 15% of patients who died with malignancies 1. Although there have been no epidemiological studies, the annual incidence of malignant pleural effusions in the United States is estimated to be >150 ...
P. Astoul +7 more
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Development and validation of the PET-CT score for diagnosis of malignant pleural effusion
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2019 PurposeAlthough some parameters of positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and computed tomography (PET-CT) are somehow helpful in differentiating malignant pleural effusion (MPE) from benign effusions, no individual parameter ...
Min-Fu Yang +11 more
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Chinese Medical Journal, 2015 Background: Hydrothorax, as one of the common complications of malignant tumors, still cannot be sensitively detected in clinical practice, thus requiring a sensitive, specific method for diagnosis.
Yan Gu +10 more
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Molecular Medicine Reports, 2018 Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a severe medical condition, which can result in breathlessness, pain, cachexia and reduced physical activity. It can occur in almost all types of malignant tumors; however, lung cancer is the most common cause of MPE ...
Yao Chen, N. W. Mathy, Hongda Lu
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Contemporary best practice in the management of malignant pleural effusion
Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2018 Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) affects more than 1 million people globally. There is a dearth of evidence on the therapeutic approach to MPE, and not surprisingly a high degree of variability in the management thereof.
C. Koegelenberg +3 more
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Evaluation of pleural fluid YKL-40 as a marker of malignant pleural effusion
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2015 The glycoprotein YKL-40 is synthesized both by cancer cells and by tumor-associated macrophages and plays a functional role in tumor progression. Consequently, high serum YKL-40 levels have been associated with a poor prognosis in patients with several ...
Adel Attia +3 more
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