Rapid pleurodesis with doxycycline through a small-bore catheter for the treatment of metastatic malignant effusions

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 475-478

  Porcel, José Manuel ^a   Salud, Antonieta ^a   Nabal, Maria ^a   Vives, Manuel ^b   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Rodríguez Panadero, Francisco ^c  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Division of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Doxycycline; Malignant pleural effusion; Pleurodesis

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; MEPIVACAINE; TALC; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; MALIGNANT PLEURAL EFFUSION; METASTASIS; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHEST TUBES; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646460764     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-005-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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