Malignant Pleural Effusion (MPE)
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Effect of Betadine in chemical pleurodesis in patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion between 2013 and 2015
... or malignant pleural effusion involve pleurodesis with chemical substances such as talc powder, nitrogen mustard, bleomycine, tetracycline, betadine solution, and some surgical techniques like ...
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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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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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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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Diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy in malignant pleural effusion
... closed pleural biopsy was only about 50% [21, ...image-guided pleural biopsy has been shown to be a promising pro- cedure for sampling the pleura, since it can increase the sensitivity for diagnosing MPE to ...
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Mast cells mediate malignant pleural effusion formation
... of pleural tumor–bearing C57BL/6 mice iden- tified a significant difference in serum CCL2, but not SPP1, between adenocarcinoma- and melanoma-bearing mice (Figure 6, B and ...harboring pleural LLC cells ...
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Pleural IFN γ release assay combined with biomarkers distinguished effectively tuberculosis from malignant pleural effusion
... It is observable that TPE patients have demonstrated greater Mtb antigen-specific IFN-γ responses than MPE patients. For patients with TPE, Mtb antigen-specific IFN-γ responses to ESAT-6 protein and to peptide pool are ...
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Important prognostic factors for survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion
... Results: One hundred and sixty-five patients were included; 77 were men (47%) and 88 were women (53%). The median age was 60 years, and all of the patients were pathologically proven to have MPE. Non-small-cell lung ...
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Malignant pleural effusion: from bench to bedside
... on pleural surface, cancer cells contained in the fluid need to adhere to the mesothelium, escape local anti-tumour immune responses, invade the pleural tissue and obtain access to nutrients and growth ...
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Mitoxantrone pleurodesis to palliate malignant pleural effusion secondary to ovarian cancer
... managing malignant effusions is determined by symptoms, performance status of the patient, expected survival and response of the known pri- mary tumor to systemic ...the pleural space, is the most widely ...
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