Non-small cell lung cancer patients could be more accurately staged at diagnosis by taking into account the level of visceral pleura invasion (VPI), new research suggests. VPI is the extension of a ...

Ethnic difference in chemoradiation-induced esophagitis in unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

In patients with small, peripheral non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), visceral pleural invasion leads to worse disease-free and recurrence-free survival as well as higher rates of recurrence, ...

In a human body, pleura is a large thin layer of tissue that wraps around the outside of your lungs and lines the inside of your chest cavity. There is a potential thin space named pleural space ...

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 ...

Point-of-care ultrasound (POC-US) is increasingly used especially in emergency and critical-care medicine. It is focused, quick and does not expose patients to ionizing radiation. It encompasses all ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The role of smoking and an urban living environment in the etiology of radiographic pleural and pulmonary abnormalities was studied in a ...

Empyema is defined as a collection of pus in the pleural space and is a form of purulent (infected), pleural effusion. Pleural effusion refers to the build-up of excess fluid between the layers of the ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare, ulcerative skin condition of unknown origin, with an annual incidence of 3 to 10 cases per million people. Skin lesions develop as painful, edematous nodules or ...

AURORA, Co—A study published in the August 2009 edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology found that non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients could be more accurately staged at diagnosis by ...