Chemical pleurodesis in the treatment of iterative neoplastic effusion.
The presence of a pleural effusion is a serious complication in the course of neoplastic diseases, where it assumes a determining medical and prognostic role. Thus the applications of adequate therapeutic methodologies becomes of primary importance to drain the effusion and to obtain an efficacious pleurodesis. In view of this the authors describe a case of iterative neoplastic pleural effusion which they have been able to observe recently.
Institute of Clinical Surgery IV, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
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Batori
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Gallinaro
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Ruggieri
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D018700:Pleurodesis