The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

The following is a summary of “Multimodality Therapy Including Pleurectomy/Decortication in Pleural Mesothelioma: Long-Term ...

7, Chung-Shan South Rd, Taipei 10002, Taiwan; jywang{at}ntu.edu.tw Background Tuberculous pleurisy is traditionally indicated by extreme lymphocytosis in pleural fluid and low yield of effusion ...

Lessons From Taxanes Versus Eribulin for First-Line Metastatic Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Positive Breast Cancer in the EMERALD Study ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with ...

According to the screening criteria, we ultimately removed 56 (32.9%) patients and included 114 (67.1%) patients (Figure 1). In our study, 25 patients had thymic histology types that were identified ...

Radiotherapy and surgery are curative treatment options for localized prostate cancer (PCa) with a 5-year survival rate of nearly 100%. Once PCa cells spread into distant organs, such as bone, the ...

The diagnostic characteristic is displacement of the pleural line. In up to 50% of cases an air-fluid level is visible in the costophrenic angle, and this is occasionally the only apparent abnormality ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...

These guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) in the management of portal hypertension have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) ...