Single-center experience with 250 tunnelled pleural catherer insertions for malignant pleural effusion

Chest

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 362-368

  Tremblay, Alain ^a,b   Michaud, Gaëtane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Lung cancer; Malignancies; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CATHETER; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUNNELLED PLEURAL CATHETER;

EID: 33344477453     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.129.2.362     Document Type: Article

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