Neutropenic complications with carboplatin AUC 5 and paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 (CP) regimen in Indian patients: A community-based single center experience. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ...

Predictors of outcome and treatment decisions of older patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Chest tubes are placed in neonates to evacuate either air (pneumothorax) or fluid (effusion, hemothorax, and empyema) from the pleural or mediastinal space, allowing reexpansion of the lung and ...

Lung cancer patients are particularly susceptible to malignant pleural effusion, when fluid collects in the space between the lungs and the chest wall. Researchers have discovered a novel mechanism ...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a short history of loss of weight and appetite, constipation, right-sided abdominal pain, unsteady gait and headache. Physical examination revealed a soft nontender ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

Fetal pleural effusion is the abnormal build-up of fluid in the chest of an unborn baby, which can cause pressure on the lungs and heart. A pleuro-amniotic shunt is a tube inserted between the chest ...

Pleural effusions complicate end-stage liver disease in 5% of patients. [5,6] Effusions (defined as 500 mL or more of fluid within the pleural space) are typically right-sided. [7,8] No ...

A Dyspnea (shortness of breath) is the commonest symptom of pleural effusion. A patient's history of chest pain, dyspnea, or cough is neither sensitive nor specific. It is only suggestive of pleural ...