title: [Modern tendencies of malignant pleural effusions epidemiology].
abstract: The during 7 years 258 patients with malignant effusion (ME) of different ethiology were treated in clinic, that composed 13.8% among all patients with pleural effusion. It was discovered the increase of this complication frequence in 1.6 time. The main reasons of ME were lung cancer--in 42.6% of observations, pleural mezothelioma--in 19.3%, mammary glands cancer--in 6.9%, real reason of ME was not found in 13.9%. Aged patients (oldest 60 years) are risk group for discovering of ME, for pleural mezothelioma the next ages are risk 30-40 and oldest 60 years.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Opanasenko
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Liskina
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zhivogliad
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Klimenko
authors.forename: Ia M
authors.initials: IaM
authors.lastname: Voloshin
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016066:Pleural Effusion, Malignant / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors