title: [Thoracoscopic talc poudrage in pleurisies of blood diseases].
abstract: A total of 20 patients aged 50.5 +/- 4.5 years with 24 chronic pleural effusions associated with lymphomas underwent 24 thoracoscopic talc poudrages. Effusions were serofibrinous (32%), hemorrhagic (41%), or chylous (27%). The mean volume of pleural liquid evacuated by repeated thoracenteses before thoracoscopy was 5.2 +/- 0.6 l. Thoracoscopic biopsies confirmed a lymphomatous infiltration of the pleura in 95.5% of cases. A definitive pleural symphysis was obtained in all cases but 2 (92% positive results): in 1 case, a further single thoracentesis of 400 ml was necessary, and in the 2nd case the patient died within 6 days from an acute evolution of her Hodgkin's disease. The mean drainage time was 4.8 +/- 0.2 days. Overall results are thus identical to those obtained in solid tumor-related pleural effusions (91% positive results).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D013627:Talc / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013906:Thoracoscopy
chemical_list: D013627:Talc
vernacular_title: Talcage thoracoscopique des pleurésies des hémopathies.