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Efficacy of sonographic and biological pleurodesis indicators of malignant pleural effusion (SIMPLE): protocol of a randomised controlled trial

INTRODUCTION: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is common and currently in UK there are an estimated 50 000 new cases of MPE per year. Talc pleurodesis remains one of the most popular methods for fluid control. The value of thoracic ultrasound (TUS) imaging, before and after pleurodesis, in improving...

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Autores principales: Psallidas, Ioannis, Piotrowska, Hania E G, Yousuf, Ahmed, Kanellakis, Nikolaos I, Kagithala, Gayathri, Mohammed, Seid, Clifton, Lei, Corcoran, John P, Russell, Nicky, Dobson, Melissa, Miller, Robert F, Rahman, Najib M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000225