Early and late morbidity and mortality and life expectancy following thoracoscopic talc insufflation for control of malignant pleural effusions: a review of 400 cases

BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural effusion is a common sequelae in patients with certain malignancies. It represents a terminal condition with short median survival (in terms of months) and the goal is palliation. Aim of our study is to analyze morbidity, mortality and life expectancy following videotho...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos, Asteriou, Christos, Papadopoulou, Fani, Samanidis, Georgios, Paliouras, Dimitrios, Kleontas, Athanassios, Lyriti, Konstantina, Katsikas, Ioannis, Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20403196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-27

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20403196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-27

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