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The efficacy of indwelling pleural catheter placement versus placement plus talc sclerosant in patients with malignant pleural effusions managed exclusively as outpatients (IPC-PLUS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural effusions (MPEs) remain a common problem, with 40,000 new cases in the United Kingdom each year and up to 250,000 in the United States. Traditional management of MPE usually involves an inpatient stay with placement of a chest drain, followed by the instillation of a pl...
Autores principales: | Bhatnagar, Rahul, Kahan, Brennan C, Morley, Anna J, Keenan, Emma K, Miller, Robert F, Rahman, Najib M, Maskell, Nick A |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4333179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0563-y |
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