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Role of Talc Modulation on Cytokine Activation in Cancer Patients Undergoing Pleurodesis

We investigate the mechanism of talc pleurodesis (TP) in 20 patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion and 10 patients with nonmalignant pleural effusions. We measured IL-8 levels before and 6 h after TP and find a significant threefold increase (2.26 ng/mL ± 0.7 to 6.5 ng/mL 0.1), which exp...

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Autores principales: Schwarz, Yehuda, Star, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/806183