Malignant mesothelioma

Our plain-English summary of Malignant mesothelioma, by D.B. Campbell (The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1997).

The study

• Author: D.B. Campbell
• Journal: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• Published: 1997;63(5):1503-5
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

This item, by David B. Campbell of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, was not a research study. It was a list of 76 references on malignant mesothelioma, published under the heading "Key References" with no accompanying text. The author reported no data, analysis, findings or conclusions, and did not explain how the references were chosen. The references were grouped under these headings: current review articles; articles of historical interest and perspective; histology, classification and staging; pleuropneumonectomy; radiation therapy; current chemotherapy; multimodality regimens; pleurodesis and thoracoscopy; intrapleural therapies, including photodynamic therapy; gene therapy; and malignant pleural effusions. The list also gave web resources for physicians and surgeons, and patient case and pathology presentations. It included two entries under "Federal Case Accounts and Awards Related to Asbestos" and two web pages from the Canadian Asbestos Institute. Because the item only lists other sources, it contains no findings of its own. The listed items include reviews, court accounts and web pages as well as research papers. Their contents can only be learned from the cited sources themselves.

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What the study did and found

• Design: Unannotated list of key references (bibliography) on malignant mesothelioma, grouped by topic; not a study and not a narrative review

Topics

The National Library of Medicine indexes this study under subjects our site covers: Mesothelioma.

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Malignant Mesothelioma.

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