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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 · 2020
Treatment of bronchial fistula after extraplural pneumonectomy using flexible bronchoscopy with the administration of OK432, fibroblast growth factor basic and fibrin glue sealant
This case report describes one patient, a 49-year-old man with malignant pleural mesothelioma. He had his right lung and surrounding pleura removed (a right extrapleural pneumonectomy) after chemotherapy given before surgery. The article does not…
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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…