Malignant pleural effusion
Implantation of permanent pleural catheter for palliation of malignant pleural effusion
... Purpose: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a disabling condition caused in most instances by far-advanced ...the pleural cavity of 18 ...
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Management of malignant pleural effusion: challenges and solutions
... Abstract: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a sign of advanced cancer and is associated with significant symptom burden and ...the pleural space, with therapies aimed at preventing recur- ...
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Liquid Based Cytology and Cell Block in Malignant Pleural Effusion a Comparative Study
... centrifuged pleural fluid can be processed as CB for histology, to enhance the ...In malignant pleural effusion diagnosis, LBC has certain advantages over conventional ...discriminating ...
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Discriminating Tuberculous Pleural Effusion from Malignant Pleural Effusion Based on Routine Pleural Fluid Biomarkers, Using Mathematical Methods
... in pleural fluid is an alternative noninvasive approach in differentiating between the different causes of pleural ...of pleural fluid were measured in patients with malignant and tuberculous ...
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Liquid Based Cytologyand Cell Block in Malignant Pleural Effusion – a Comparative Study
... centrifuged pleural fluid can be processed as CB for histology, to enhance the ...In malignant pleural effusion diagnosis, LBC has certain advantages over conventional ...discriminating ...
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The prognosis after contraindicated surgery of NSCLC patients with malignant pleural effusion (M1a) may be better than expected
... ipsilateral malignant pleural effusion who underwent primary tumor resection group and those who did ...ipsilateral malignant pleural effusion who underwent primary tumor ...
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Comparative Analysis of Mean Pleural Fluid D-dimer Level in Malignant and Non-Malignant Pleural Effusion Patients
... of malignant cells on cytological examination or in a biopsy specimen ...Non-Malignant Pleural Effusion (NMPE) were enrolled as control subjects, including 16 patients with transudate caused ...
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Effect of Betadine in chemical pleurodesis in patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion between 2013 and 2015
... Results: In this study, a total number of patients was 50 among whom 23 were male (46%) and 27 were female (54%). The mean age of the patients was 53.25±12.49 years. In the six months follow-up, 40 patients (80%) were ...
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The Concentration of Interleukin-27 in the pleural fluid of patients with exudative pleural effusion and its diagnostic value in differentiating between benign and malignant pleural effusion
... exudative pleural effusion, and the exclusion criteria were transudative pleural effusion, diabetes mellitus, self-immune diseases, and rheumatologic ...the pleural fluid, thoracocen- ...
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The diagnostic significance and the assessment of the value of vascular endothelial growth factor as a marker for success of chemical pleurodesis in malignant pleural effusion
... of pleural effusion is an im- portant issue, since the treatment modalities and prognosis strictly depend on early and correct diag- nosis of the underlying ...with malignant and non-malignant ...
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Novel biomarker analysis of pleural effusion enhances differentiation of tuberculous from malignant pleural effusion
... tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) from malignant pleural effusion (MPE) because current clinical diagnostic procedures are often ...Fourteen pleural effusion biomarkers ...
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Comparative study between indwelling pleural drain and intercostal drainage followed by pleurodesis in management of malignant pleural effusion
... Background: Malignant pleural effusion is a major cause of morbidity in lung cancer ...repeated pleural aspirations or persistent intercostal drainage (ICD) ...
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Results of chemical pleurodesis with mitoxantrone in malignant pleural effusion from breast cancer
... of malignant cells in pleural fluid and pari- etal pleura signifies disseminated or advanced disease and reduced life expectancy in cancer ...in malignant effusions secondary to lung cancer and the ...
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Simple intrapleural hyperthermia at thoracoscopic exploration to treat malignant pleural effusion
... for pleural hyperther- mic effects remains ...whom pleural biopsy was done intraoperatively (once or twice), no morphologic differences were de- tected in comparing histologic features of pleura before and ...
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Mast cells mediate malignant pleural effusion formation
... (B) Pleural MCs of C57BL/6 mice at day 14 after pleural wt, β-gal, or Ccl2 plasmid (pCcl2)- expressing B16F10 cells (n = ...(C) Pleural MCs of C57BL/6 mice at day 14 after pleural delivery of ...
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Mitoxantrone pleurodesis to palliate malignant pleural effusion secondary to ovarian cancer
... Mitoxantrone is a synthetic anthracenedione which has been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of peri- toneal and pleural effusion. From a pharmacological point of view, mitoxantrone may be an ...
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Important prognostic factors for survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion
... Pleural effusion was the first manifestation of malig- nancy in approximately 15% of asymptomatic ...of pleural effu- sions were large (affected two thirds or more of the hemithorax) and 33% were ...
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Diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy in malignant pleural effusion
... ultrasound-guided pleural biopsies are quite sen- sitive and safe, with the only reported complications being local hematoma and minor hemoptysis [21, ...image-guided pleural biopsy is the blindness of the ...
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Malignant pleural effusion: from bench to bedside
... During the last decade, there has been significant progress in unravelling the pathophysiology of MPE, as well as its diagnostics, imaging and management. Expanding interest in this area has resulted in an increasing ...
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN PLEURAL FLUID ASPIRATE CYTOLOGY AND BLIND PLEURAL BIOPSY HISTOPATHOLOGY IN PATIENTS SUSPECTED TO HAVE MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSION
... the pleural fluid establishes the diagnosis more frequently than pleural ...with malignant pleural ...the pleural fluid only if the tumour involves the pleural ...by ...
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