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Report of results of pleural biopsy (Needle biopsy and open biopsy) in 108 cases and 245 biopsies [PDF]

, 1960
1. The results of 245 pleural biopsies perfomed in 108 patients including 219 pleural needle biopsies and 26 pleural open biopsies were reported. The method of pleural biopsy seems to be superior to any other currently available diagnostic procedures for
Mc, Lt. Col., Sohn, Isaack
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Pathophysiological mechanism of post-lobectomy air leaks [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Air leak post-lobectomy continues to remain a significant clinical problem, with upper lobectomy associated with higher air leak rates. This paper investigated the pathophysiological role of pleural stress in the development of post-lobectomy
Bertolaccini, Luca, Camilleri, Liberato, Casha, Aaron R., Dudek, Krzysztof, Gatt, Ruben, Gauci, Marilyn, Grima, Joseph N., Manche, Alexander, Melikyan, Gor, Solli, Piergiorgio   +9 more
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Use of anabolic-androgenic steroids masking the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009
Introduction Tuberculous pleural effusions are not always easy to diagnose but the presence of a lymphocyte-rich exudate associated with an increased adenosine deaminase level and a positive skin test result are highly sensitive diagnostic signs.
de Larrea Carlos, Duplat Aglae, Rivera-Olivero Ismar, de Waard Jacobus H   +3 more
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Characteristics of Patients with Tuberculous Pleural Effusion in Rural Nepal

Journal of Lumbini Medical College, 2013
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in developing countries. Tubercular Pleural effusion is the second most common form of extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), superseded in Prevalence only by lymph node ...
M S Paudel, Anjana Kafle, Bishal Khatri Chhetri, Sahadev Prasad Dhungana, Anuj Poudel, Shamsuddhin .   +5 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, de la Iglesia-Vayá, Maria, Pertusa, Antonio, Salinas, Jose-Maria   +3 more
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Assessment of treatment response in tuberculosis [PDF]

, 2016
Antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis has a duration of several months. There is significant variability of the host immune response and the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis sub-populations at the site of disease. A
Du Bruyn, E, Morris, T, Rockwood, N, Wilkinson, RJ   +3 more
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound Assessment of Tropical Infectious Diseases—A Review of Applications and Perspectives [PDF]

, 2015
The development of good quality and affordable ultrasound machines has led to the establishment and implementation of numerous point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) protocols in various medical disciplines.
Abdalla, Abdalla Balla, Adler, Balasubramanian, Belard, Bharath Kumar Reddy, Bonnard, Brennan, Brindle, Brunetti, Brunetti, Bukte, Bustinduy, Bustinduy, Carr, Colley, Darge, Debrah, Debrah, Del Carpio, DeVries, Eckert, Eckert, el Scheich, Elia, Elmahdi, Frade, Giordani, Golemanov, Gonzalez, Grobusch, Guerin, Hanscheid, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, Henriquez-Camacho, Heuvelings, Jang, Jang, Janssen, Jeon, Kabaalioglu, King, King, King, Li, Lichtenstein, Luzze, Ma, Ma, Macpherson, Mahmoud, Majid, Mand, Mand, Mand, Mand, Maru, Mateer, Mazur-Melewska, Mekky, Melchionda, Michels, Mirabel, Mohammad, Moore, Moreno, Mortele, Muhtarov, Nabeta, Oliveira, Pereira Junior, Piccoli, Pinto-Silva, Polat Ekinci, Poltera, Quintanilla-Cedillo, Reuter, Richter, Richter, Richter, Rinaldi, Rozycki, Ruiz-Guevara, Shah, Shim, Srikiatkhachorn, Stanley, Stojkovic, Stojkovic, Stoopen, Stothard, Teichmann, Tolsgaard, Torres-Macho, Tufan, Umetsu, van Hoving, von Reyn, Wagatsuma, Wahlers, Wahlers, Weinke, Wu, Zha, Ziraman   +111 more
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Interferon-gamma release assay performance of pleural fluid and peripheral blood in pleural tuberculosis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (TB) remains to be difficult. Interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) is a promising method for diagnosing TB in low TB burden countries.
Fei Liu, Mengqiu Gao, Xia Zhang, Fengjiao Du, Hongyan Jia, Xinting Yang, Zitong Wang, Liqun Zhang, Liping Ma, Xiaoguang Wu, Li Xie, Zongde Zhang   +11 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
The yield from aspirating lymph nodes and pleural fluid for diagnosing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is unknown. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from lymph node or pleural fluid aspirates of 21 patients; 7 (33%) cultures grew XDR ...
Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi, François J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, N. Sarita Shah   +9 more
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Pleural Tuberculosis and HIV Infection

Chest, 1994
Human immunodeficiency virus infection changes the clinical presentation of tuberculosis infection with atypical radiographs and more common extra-pulmonary involvement. We retrospectively studied pleural tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients over a 5-year period.
Stuart M. Garay, Conrado P. Aranda, Felicia Relkin, Kenneth A. Berkowitz, Robert L. Smith, William N. Rom   +5 more
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