Treatment of a Prolonged Air Leak with Radiotherapy: A Case Report
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2012 Pneumothorax is defined as air in the pleural space. Depending on the severity of the pneumothorax, treatment consists of oxygen therapy, simple aspiration, tube thoracostomy, and pleurodesis.
Erdoğan Çetinkaya +4 more
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Localized fibrous tumours of the pleura: 15 new cases and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: To present a series of localized fibrous tumours of the pleura (LFTP), to define the clinical and histopathological diagnostic criteria of this tumour, and to determine the optimal treatment and follow-up.
Boumghar, M. +4 more
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Surgical technique of pleurectomy/decortication
Shanghai Chest, 2018 Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive and fatal thoracic malignancy associated with exposure to asbestos. Although there is no strong evidence to support how surgery can improve prognosis, multimodal therapy, including curative intent surgery, has been utilized in patients with resectable MPM. Two different approaches exist for curative
Masaki Hashimoto, Seiki Hasegawa
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Does a thoracic epidural confer any additional benefit following video-assisted thoracoscopic pleurectomy for primary spontaneous pneumothorax? [PDF]
, 2005 Marı́a Fernández +5 more
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VATS bullectomy and apical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax in a young patient with Swyer-James-Mc Leod syndrome: case report presentation and literature review focusing on surgically treated cases [PDF]
, 2014 Νικόλαος Παναγόπουλος +4 more
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Immuno-chemotherapy reduces recurrence of malignant pleural mesothelioma: an experimental setting [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: To assess the effect of immuno-chemotherapy on the extent of local tumour recurrence in an established rat model of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).
Ampollini, Luca +7 more
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Recurrent pneumothorax in pregnancy: What should we do after placing an intercostal drain [PDF]
, 2006 Recurrent pneumothorax is rare during pregnancy. We describe a Chinese woman, with a history of spontaneous pneumothorax managed with an intercostal drain, who developed a recurrent pneumothorax during her 32nd week of pregnancy. There is no consensus on
Ho, JC +6 more
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Editorial commentA phase II study of intrapleural immunochemotherapy, pleurectomy/decortication, radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy, and long-term subcutaneous IL-2 in stage II–III malignant pleural mesothelioma [PDF]
, 2007 Valerie W. Rusch
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MesoTRAP: A feasibility study comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial [PDF]
, 2018 Robert C. Rintoul +8 more
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Tomotherapy after Pleurectomy or Decortication or Biopsy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma [PDF]
, 2013 Marco Trovò, Emilio Minatel
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