11 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Mesothelioid reaction following talc pleurodesis: a case report
This case report described one patient: a 43-year-old woman with a 40 pack-year smoking history who went to an emergency department with right-sided chest pain, fatigue and chronic cough. Repeated right-sided pneumothoraxes (collapsed lung) had been…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Extended pleurectomy decortication for thymoma with pleural dissemination
This case report described one patient, a 30-year-old Japanese man with a type B1 thymoma (a tumor of the thymus) that had spread to the lining of the right chest cavity (pleural dissemination). The article does not discuss asbestos. Malignant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Localized malignant pleural mesothelioma
This was a case report from a thoracic surgery department in Japan. It included the authors' tally of previously published cases of localized malignant pleural mesothelioma, a rare form that appears as a single distinct lump without spread across…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Huge malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura
This was a case report about one man treated by thoracic surgeons at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. He had a rare tumor, a solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura, which the authors note can be mistaken for mesothelioma. He came to the clinic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Extrapleural pneumonectomy or pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma
This invited review article came from the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Hyogo College of Medicine in Japan. It discussed the choice between two operations for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) removes the lung,…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Induction chemotherapy, extrapleural pneumonectomy, and adjuvant radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: experience of Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals
This prospective study from Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London followed 25 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (23 men and 2 women, median age 62) who agreed to extrapleural pneumonectomy after cisplatin-based chemotherapy. The study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Minute localized malignant pleural mesothelioma coexisting with multiple adenocarcinomas
This case report from Matsue Red Cross Hospital in Japan described one patient: a 64-year-old woman with no symptoms and no history of smoking or asbestos exposure. A routine chest X-ray showed a shadow. A CT scan then showed five small hazy spots,…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
FDG PET/CT is useful for detecting infiltration to the port site in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
This study looked back at 21 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma treated at Nagoya University Hospital in Japan. All had surgery with curative intent between June 2007 and May 2013, after diagnosis by a video-assisted thoracic surgery…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Bilateral dissemination of malignant pleural mesothelioma via iatrogenic buffalo chest: a rare route of disease progression
This case report described one 75-year-old Japanese man with malignant pleural mesothelioma. He had worked in an ironworks for about 40 years, and the authors wrote that he may have been exposed to asbestos dust. Thirteen months earlier he had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Interim results of pleurectomy/decortication and intraoperative intrapleural hyperthermic cisplatin perfusion for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma intolerable to extrapleural pneumonectomy
This was a review, at one Tokyo university hospital, of 14 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with surgery plus other therapies between June 2010 and April 2014. Four patients unable to tolerate extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Resection of a giant, invasive malignant solitary fibrous tumor of pleura
This case report described one patient, a 61-year-old woman with a large malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP). In 2006 she had a mastectomy for a breast lump that turned out to be benign. Three years later she developed fever and…