985 results for “General Electric”, page 49 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Conversion surgery for locally advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma
This case report from Shizuoka Cancer Center, Japan, described two women aged 60 and 67. Both had epithelioid malignant pleural mesothelioma judged inoperable at diagnosis (clinical stage IIIB). The 67-year-old woman had a history of asbestos…
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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 · 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
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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Pleural plaques related to "take-home" exposure to asbestos: An international case series
This case report described two families, one in Petach Tikvah, Israel, and one near Seattle, Washington, USA. In each, the children of a father heavily exposed to asbestos at work were examined for asbestos-related disease. No sibling was found to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
The sister Mary Joseph nodule
This article was a brief clinical image report about a single patient. A 63-year-old Puerto Rican man came to medical attention with penile swelling, discomfort and difficulty urinating. On examination, doctors found a firm, nodular mass at his…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Need for randomized clinical trials testing targeted therapies in malignant pleural mesothelioma
This was a letter to the editor of Lung Cancer, written in response to an earlier article on BAP1 as a treatment target. In it, the authors reported a small meta-analysis, which pools the results of published trials, of targeted drug therapies for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes and PD-L1 expression as potential predictors of outcome in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
This retrospective study examined archived tumour samples, held in Trieste, Italy, from 62 patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma between 2005 and 2016. All were epithelioid type and selected as asbestos-exposed. No fiber types, jobs…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Advances in systemic therapy for malignant mesothelioma: future perspectives
This article is a narrative review, not a new study. The authors described published and ongoing clinical trials of drug treatments for malignant mesothelioma, covering combination chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and drugs aimed at specific molecular…