Pleural thickening >1 cm, pleural nodularity and diaphragmatic thickening >7 mm were highly suggestive of malignant disease. Conclusion: TUS is useful in differentiating malignant from benign pleural ...

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Another CT scan in 2022 unfortunately diagnosed Mr D with pleural thickening of the left lung. Natalie Amara instructed respiratory Consultant Dr Andrew Leonard to review Mr D's medical records and ...

Results: All patients had extensive pleural thickening evident on chest x ray examination at the time of discharge, which resolved entirely over a period of 2–16 months.

Radiological Findings (Phebe Chen, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology) The admission chest radiograph (Fig 2) showed bilateral pleural effusions. Abnormal linear densities in the left lower lung ...

The use of thoracic ultrasound outside the radiology department and in everyday clinical practice is becoming increasingly common, having been incorporated into standards of care for many specialties.

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IN 1953 Sutliff, Hughes and Rice1 reported a series of 21 cases of pleural disease presenting various problems of management and diagnosis. Pleural biopsy in 17 cases showed granulomatous disease o ...

Thorax computed tomography allows a detailed evaluation of fluid-related features such as the amount of pleural effusion, investigation of pleural nodule and thickening, presence of loculation, and ...

PLEURAL-fluid eosinophilia has occurred rarely enough to be an unfamiliar phenomenon but frequently enough to have been the subject of considerable speculation about its diagnostic and prognostic s ...

Frailty in patients with pleural disease is associated with increased 12-month mortality, according to study findings published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine. Investigators sought to explore the ...

The pleural effusion with thickening/lesion group randomized to IA-ANPB had a disproportionate amount of men (73.6%) compared with other study arms.