Malignant pleural mesothelioma

Malignant mesothelioma is one of the rare tumors of pleura. One such case in a 57-year-old male, who presented with hemorrhagic pleural effusion and had no history of asbestos exposure, is reported here. The rarity, unusual presentation, and implications are discussed.

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Autor principal: Rao, Sukhesh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20440397
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.48900
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spelling pubmed-28604172010-05-03 Malignant pleural mesothelioma Rao, Sukhesh Lung India Case Report Malignant mesothelioma is one of the rare tumors of pleura. One such case in a 57-year-old male, who presented with hemorrhagic pleural effusion and had no history of asbestos exposure, is reported here. The rarity, unusual presentation, and implications are discussed. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2860417/ /pubmed/20440397 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.48900 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_full Malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_fullStr Malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_full_unstemmed Malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_short Malignant pleural mesothelioma
title_sort malignant pleural mesothelioma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20440397
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.48900
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