If pus collects in the cavity of the lung it will require drainage with a needle or tube and a longer duration of antibiotics. Pleural effusion — Fluid may collect between the thin layers of lining ...

This type of cancer develops in the protective lining of the lungs and chest wall (pleura) and spreads throughout the ... Curative surgery is the most effective treatment for pleural mesothelioma. The ...

This procedure removes cancerous tumors from the abdominal cavity and then bathes the surgery site in heated cancer ... There are four different types of mesothelioma based on where the cancer ...

Effusions within the pericardium, pleura, and peritoneum are common ultrasonographic findings in infectious thoracic and abdominal diseases. However, these effusions' echogenicity does not always ...

According to Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) data from the National Cancer Institute, the incidence of malignant mesothelioma in 2008 was approximately 1 per 100,000 persons in ...

Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that arises in the pleura itself. It's most common in people who've been exposed to asbestos. You can be exposed to asbestos at work or when remodeling homes or other ...

Adhesions between the visceral and parietal pleura were found intraoperatively and dissected with monopolar electrocautery ... The CT showed a left diaphragmatic hernia, with the presence of the ...

Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. *Corresponding Author: Alexander M. Tsankov, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ...

Recorded from the initiation of mediastinal gas infusion (in the observation group) or the incision of the mediastinal pleura (in the control group ... 2) No air leakage from the pleural cavity; 3)A ...