Pleural effusions associated with squamous cell lung carcinoma have a low diagnostic yield and a poor prognosis

BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) portends a poor prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the yield of pleural fluid cytology as well as survival of patients with MPE associated with squamous cell carcinoma versus adenocarcinoma is not well understood. We conducted this...

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Autores principales: Dorry, Michael, Davidson, Kevin, Dash, Rajesh, Jug, Rachel, Clarke, Jeffrey M., Nixon, Andrew B., Mahmood, Kamran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2021
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8264347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34295657
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tlcr-21-123

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8264347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34295657
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/tlcr-21-123

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