Chemical Pleurodesis to Improve Patients' Quality of Life in the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions: The 15 Year Experience of the National Cancer Institute of Milan

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 73-79

  Brega Massone, Pier Paolo ^a,d   Lequaglie, Cosimo ^a   Magnani, Barbara ^b   Ferro, Franca ^c   Cataldo, Ignazio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Statistical Unit   (Italy)

^c Civil Hospital   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical pleurodesis; Malignant pleural effusion; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; TALC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PLEURODESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PLEURODESIS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2042525178     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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