MesoTRAP: a feasibility study that includes a pilot clinical trial comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial

INTRODUCTION: One of the most debilitating symptoms of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is dyspnoea caused by pleural effusion. MPM can be complicated by the presence of tumour on the visceral pleura preventing the lung from re-expanding, known as trapped lung (TL). There is currently no consens...

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Autores principales: Matthews, Claire, Freeman, Carol, Sharples, Linda D, Fox-Rushby, Julia, Tod, Angela, Maskell, Nicholas A, Edwards, John G, Coonar, Aman S, Sivasothy, Pasupathy, Hughes, Victoria, Rahman, Najib M, Waller, David A, Rintoul, Robert Campbell
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30687504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2018-000368

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