Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2013 Background: The discrimination of pleural thickening from minimal pleural effusion may be difficult as both lesions appear as anechoic on grayscale ultrasound, hence, free of “echoes” does not confirm the presence of pleural fluid.
Ali A. Hasan +2 more
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PadChest: A large chest x-ray image dataset with multi-label annotated reports [PDF]
, 2019 We present a labeled large-scale, high resolution chest x-ray dataset for the automated exploration of medical images along with their associated reports.
Bustos, Aurelia +3 more
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Myelomatous Pleural Effusion [PDF]
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a common hematologic malignancy. Pleural effusion is a rare presenting feature of multiple myeloma which carries a poor prognosis.
شیردل, عباس +3 more
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Pleural Effusion in Multiple Myeloma.
Internal medicine, 2016 OBJECTIVE Pleural effusion is rarely observed in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Myeloma cell infiltration or invasion to the pleura is very rare. This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of pleural effusion in patients with MM.
Zhuo Wang +8 more
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Empyema necessitans and a persistent air leak associated with rupture of an anaerobic lung abscess due to bacteroides [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Blyth, Kevin G., Sharma, Varun
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Diagnotic Value of the Combined Determination of Telomerase Activity in Induced Sputum, Pleural Effusion and Fiberobronchoscopic Biopsy Samples in Lung Cancer [PDF]
, 2010 Background and objective It has been proven that telomerase activation correlates with the carcinogenesis, aggressiveness and turnover of lung cancer.
Cheng ZHAO +4 more
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Human lung adenocarcinoma cell cultures derived from malignant pleural effusions as model system to predict patients chemosensitivity [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths and Malignant Pleural Effusion (MPE) is a frequent complication. Current therapies suffer from lack of efficacy in a great percentage of cases, especially when cancer is diagnosed at ...
CHERUBINI, EMANUELA +17 more
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A multidisciplinary approach for the diagnosis of benign asbestos pleural effusion: a single-center experience [PDF]
, 2020 Weizhan Luo +5 more
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A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report [PDF]
, 2009 We report a case of an immunocompetent 18-year-old man with a massive hemorrhagic, exudative, lymphocytic pleural effusion. Blind transthoracic pleural biopsy showed granuloma formation, while the pleural fluid culture was positive for Mycobacterium ...
Anastasia Amfilochiou +8 more
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Identifying Malignant Pleural Effusion by A Cancer Ratio (Serum LDH: Pleural Fluid ADA Ratio)
Lung, 2015 AimWe studied the diagnostic potential of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in malignant pleural effusion.MethodsRetrospective analysis of patients hospitalized with exudative pleural effusion in 2013.ResultsSerum LDH and serum LDH: pleural fluid ADA ...
Akash Verma +2 more
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