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Patient With Advanced Aggressive B2 Thymoma Achieved Positive Outcomes Post CAP‐Endostar Combination Therapy

The Clinical Respiratory Journal, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2025.
At the 50 months of follow‐up, the patient remained in a stable condition without evidence of local recurrence or distal metastases. ABSTRACT This case report features a patient with an invasive thymoma. The patient presented with an anterior mediastinal mass that invaded the left brachiocephalic trunk vein, resulting in the formation of a carcinoma ...
Min Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Kelei Zhao, Xiaohan Yuan, Jinghang Zhang, Yanting Liu, Ping Lu   +6 more
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Is there a biomechanical cause for spontaneous pneumothorax? [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax has long been explained as being without apparent cause. This paper deals with the effect of chest wall shape and explains how this may lead to the pathogenesis of primary spontaneous pneumothorax. METHODS:
Camilleri-Podesta, Marie Therese, Casha, Aaron, Dudek, Krzysztof, Gatt, Ruben, Gauci, Marilyn, Grima, Joseph N., Manche, Alexander, Schembri-Wismayer, Pierre, Wolak, Wiktor   +8 more
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Phase II Trial of Cediranib in Combination With Cisplatin and Pemetrexed in Chemotherapy-Naïve Patients With Unresectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (SWOG S0905). [PDF]

, 2019
PurposeAntiangiogenic agents combined with chemotherapy have efficacy in the treatment of unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Cediranib (AstraZeneca, Cheshire, United Kingdom), a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and platelet ...
Box-Noriega, Brandy, Fossella, Frank V, Gadgeel, Shirish, Gandara, David R, Heymach, John V, Hueftle, James G, Kelly, Karen, Lu, Charles, Miao, Jieling, Redman, Mary W, Tsao, Anne S, Velasco, Mario R, Vogelzang, Nicholas J, Wistuba, Ignacio I   +13 more
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Parietal pleurectomy for recurrent pneumothorax

Journal of British Surgery, 1976
Abstract One hundred patients with persistent or recurrent pneumothorax treated by parietal pleurectomy are described. There was one known recurrence and no postoperative deaths. Six patients required further surgery for complications. In the uncomplicated cases the average stay in hospital following operation was 11.5 days.
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Tension Pneumothorax Requiring Video‐Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery With Multimodal Pleurodesis: An Unexpected Ramification of a Ground Level Fall Without Significant Blunt or Penetrating Injury

Respirology Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2025.
This case highlights the potential for severe complications in an otherwise healthy patient with tension pneumothorax resulting from a ground‐level fall onto an absorbent soft surface with mild indirect thoracic trauma. Initial respiratory status, coupled with asthma history, was worrisome for asthma exacerbation; however, imaging confirmed tension ...
Christ Ordookhanian, Max Slosarski, Ryan F. Amidon, Komal Kapoor   +3 more
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A Rare Case of Chylothorax in a Patient with Schimmelpenning Syndrome

The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2014
Chylothorax originating in a patient with Schimmelpenning syndrome is rare and poses a problem in diagnosis and treatment. A 22-year-old male was admitted with dyspnea indicative of a large pleural chylous effusion. Besides conservative dietary treatment
Bettina Schlolaut, Hans Heinz Schild, Joachim Pfannschmidt, Dirk Kaiser   +3 more
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Indwelling pleural catheter and successful autopleurodesis of refractory inflammatory lupus effusion

Respirology Case Reports, 2020
Indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) is a useful tool for refractory malignant pleural effusions (MPEs). It allows palliation by intermittent symptomatic relief of the effusion and improves quality of life.
Boon Hau Ng, Nik Nuratiqah Nik Abeed, Mohamed Faisal Abdul Hamid, Chun Ian Soo, Hsueh Jing Low, Andrea Yu‐Lin Ban   +5 more
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Consensus Report of the 2015 Weinman International Conference on Mesothelioma. [PDF]

On November 9 and 10, 2015, the International Conference on Mesothelioma in Populations Exposed to Naturally Occurring Asbestiform Fibers was held at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Adjei, Alex, Baumann, Francine, Boffetta, Paolo, Buck, Brenda, Carbone, Michele, Chao, Ann, de Perrot, Marc, Dogan, A Umran, Gavett, Steve, Gualtieri, Alessandro, Hassan, Raffit, Hesdorffer, Mary, Hirsch, Fred R, Kanodia, Shreya, Larson, David, Malik, Shakun, Mao, Weimin, Masten, Scott, Miller, Aubrey, Pass, Harvey I, Peto, Julian, Pira, Enrico, Steele, Ian, Tsao, Anne, Wali, Anil, Weissman, David, Woodard, Gavitt Alida, Yang, Haining   +27 more
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Impact of Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Pleural Intensity‐Modulated Radiotherapy in Multimodality Treatment for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Thoracic Cancer, Volume 16, Issue 5, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Few malignancies provoke as many controversies about treatment as pleural mesothelioma. There is limited experience with novel radiotherapy techniques worldwide in adjuvant and particularly in neoadjuvant settings within multimodality treatment.
Berta Mosleh, Stefan Schwarz, Anna Cho, Katharina Sinn, Ariane Steindl, Sabine Zöchbauer‐Müller, Wolfgang J. Köstler, Karin Dieckmann, Martin Heilmann, Joachim Widder, Daniela Gompelmann, Clemens Aigner, Thomas Klikovits, Mir Alireza Hoda   +13 more
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A Case of Multisystemic Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in an Adult

Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies
A 23-year-old female smoker presented in late 2008 with a large left pneumothorax. She had multiple spontaneous pneumothoraces in 2007 which required pleurectomy.
Chng Chiaw Ling
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