Wearable-derived activity metrics can help clinicians assess functional recovery in patients with malignant pleural effusion after pleural procedures.

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 ...

How does fluid build up around the lungs? There are two sheets of tissue that protect the lungs. They are called pleural membranes (pleura). In between the pleura is the pleural space. It's normal to ...

The indications for pleural drainage are diagnostic (to collect samples for cytologic, biologic, or chemical analysis) and therapeutic (to remove large fluid collections and improve respiratory ...

Pleural effusion, the accumulation of fluid in the pleural space, may reflect a broad spectrum of underlying disorders ranging from infection and malignancy to systemic diseases. Accurate ...

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with prenatally diagnosed pleural effusions and to identify factors associated with an increased risk of aneuploidy.

Pleural effusion cytology is already used in cancer diagnosis, especially in metastatic settings, but its sensitivity can be limited. Tumor cells are easily masked by overwhelming numbers of ...

Methotrexate-Induced Neurotoxicity and Leukoencephalopathy in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia On the basis of PE status from chest computed tomography scans at diagnosis, 2,061 patients were ...

Breast cancer can go away for a while and then show up again. It can also spread to different areas of your body when it comes back. Sometimes, breast cancer returns and spreads to the pleura, the ...