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Results of chemical pleurodesis with mitoxantrone in malignant pleural effusion from breast cancer

BACKGROUND: Carcinoma of the breast is the second leading cause of malignant pleural effusions. This study reports on the efficacy of mitoxantrone as a sclerosing agent in patients with breast cancer who had a pleural effusion as a direct consequence of metastatic disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Over...

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Autores principales: Barbetakis, Nikolaos, Antoniadis, Theodoros, Tsilikas, Christodoulos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC420258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15153245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-2-16