7 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 · 2020
Clinical feature of diagnostic challenging cases for pleural biopsy in patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma
This retrospective study from one hospital in Japan reviewed 400 consecutive patients suspected of having malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). All had a surgical pleural biopsy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) between 2004 and 2017. The…
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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 · 2021
Non-incisional pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma
This retrospective review from one hospital in Kitakyushu, Japan, assessed a surgical technique the authors developed for malignant pleural mesothelioma: pleurectomy/decortication done without cutting into the pleura ("non-incisional"), intended to…
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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 · 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 · 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…