IN 1953 Sutliff, Hughes and Rice 1 reported a series of 21 cases of pleural disease presenting various problems of management and diagnosis. Pleural biopsy in 17 cases showed granulomatous disease of ...

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Pleural abrasion was linked to reduced intraoperative blood loss. The total postoperative drainage volume was lower in the ...

Pleural diseases affect the pleural tissue that lines the inside of the chest cavity and covers the outside of the lungs. The visceral pleura (which covers the lung) and the parietal pleura (which ...

A 66-year-old woman presented for evaluation after developing effusion around her left lung. She had been diagnosed previously with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, which was treated. The ...

Inflammation of the parietal pleura-outer, epithelial lining of the lungs is known as pleurisy (or pleuritis). The fast moving pain signals in the parietal pleura cause severe and local pain in the ...

To develop a method to deliver mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the pleural cavity for the treatment of pleural diseases. MSCs were isolated from rat bone marrow of rats and labeled with ...

A 63-year-old German woman presented to her family physician with severe malaise, dyspnea, fever, night sweats and a dry cough. She was treated as an outpatient with empirical doxycyclin 100 mg twice ...