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Épanchement pleural malin : Questions médicales fréquentes
Termes MeSH sélectionnés :
Diagnostic
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Épanchement pleural
Diagnostic médical
Analyse du liquide
Cytologie
Thoracocentèse
Épanchement pleural
Scanner
Épanchement pleural
Symptômes
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Essoufflement
Douleur thoracique
Examen physique
Asymétrie thoracique
Symptômes
Épanchement léger
Prévention
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Prévention
Dépistage du cancer
Vaccination
Infections pulmonaires
Soins palliatifs
Qualité de vie
Traitements
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Chimiothérapie
Drain pleural
Drainage pleural
Épanchement récurrent
Chimiothérapie
Tumeurs malignes
Effets secondaires
Infections
Radiothérapie
Épanchement pleural
Complications
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Infection
Insuffisance respiratoire
Douleurs thoraciques
Douleurs chroniques
Infection
Drainage pleural
Facteurs de risque
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Facteurs de risque
Tabagisme
BPCO
Maladies pulmonaires
Exposition professionnelle
Amiante
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Laboratory of Pleural and Lung Cancer Translational Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom; Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 7LE, United Kingdom.
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Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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3 publications dans cette catégorie
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Institute for Respiratory Health and Centre for Respiratory Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
Publications dans "Épanchement pleural malin" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Research Group of Cancer Biomarkers, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida), 25198 Lleida, Spain.
Pleural Medicine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital (HUAV), 25198 Lleida, Spain.
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Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1800 Orleans Street, Suite 7-125, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Electronic address: dfk@jhmi.edu.
Publications dans "Épanchement pleural malin" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, Rio, Achaia 26504, Greece; Lungs for Living Research Centre, UCL Respiratory, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom; Laboratory of Pleural and Lung Cancer Translational Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom; Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford OX3 7LE, United Kingdom.
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Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
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The management of pediatric appendicitis continues to advance with the development of evidence-based treatment algorithms and a recent shift toward patient-centered treatment approaches. Further resea...
Acute appendicitis is a common abdominal surgical emergency worldwide. Abraham Groves performed the first documented open appendectomy in 1883. Although appendectomy is still the most effective treatm...
The use of Appendicitis Inflammatory Response clinical score in patients with suspected acute appendicitis makes the diagnosis more objective and accurate....
The aim of this study was to prospectively compare two groups with suspected acute appendicitis, analyzing the number of imaging tests requested, waiting time in the emergency department, until defini...
This is a prospective randomized study comparing 55 patients submitted to clinical-radiological diagnosis according to the routine of the service (control group), with another 55 patients submitted to...
Waiting time for defining the intervention group's conduct was 1.5 h shorter than the control group (p=0.02). Computed tomography was performed in 42 patients in the control group, compared with 25 in...
The use of the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score reduced the waiting time for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis, decreased the number of imaging tests, and increased diagnostic specificity of...
The vermiform appendix (VA) is known to exhibit a wide range of anatomic variability, with clinical presentation correlating with certain known anatomic positioning. To the best of our knowledge, we d...
Differential diagnosis and management for perforated appendicitis and non-perforated appendicitis are current hot topics. The aim of this study is to demonstrate a new entity of non-perforated appendi...
Acute pain in the right lower quadrant during pregnancy is difficult to approach and acute appendicitis must be excluded. The complication rate in pregnant acute appendicitis increases as a result of ...
This was designed as a retrospective, single-center case-control study. This study was performed in pregnant women over 12 weeks of gestation who were diagnosed with acute appendicitis as indicated by...
The present study was performed with 76 pregnant women, including 38 pregnant women with acute appendicitis and 38 pregnant women with healthy controls. SII had a sensitivity of 82.0% and specificity ...
SII is a cost-effective, rapid, easily calculated, and powerful marker that can be used for the diagnosis of both acute and complicated appendicitis in pregnant patients....
Endoscopic retrograde appendicitis therapy (ERAT) is a new method of treating acute appendicitis that has emerged in recent years in children, but the application of radiological examination in the di...
A retrospective analysis was conducted on 136 children admitted to our hospital from January 2020 to October 2021 who were definitively diagnosed with acute appendicitis and underwent endoscopic retro...
Endoscopic treatment was completed in 131 patients with a success rate of 96.32%. There was no significant difference between the two groups in appendix diameter, intestinal wall, or muscular layer af...
Endoscopic intra-appendiceal irrigation under the guidance of high-frequency ultrasonography is a real-time and convenient method that is safe and effective in treating pediatric acute appendicitis....
Several scoring systems exist for the management of acute appendicitis (AA) during pregnancy. However, the systems are based on the nonpregnant adult population. The aim of this study was to create a ...
The pre-interventional differentiation between complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis is decisive for treatment. In the context of conservative therapy, the definitive diagnosis of uncomplicated a...
This is a retrospective analysis of two cohorts from two tertiary referral centers in Switzerland and Germany. All consecutive patients underwent appendectomy between January 2008 and April 2013 (in t...
Nine hundred fifty-six patients were included in the analysis. Two hundred twenty patients (23%) had complicated appendicitis, and 736 patients (77%) had uncomplicated appendicitis or no inflammation....
AIR and Alvarado scores showed limited capability to distinguish between complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis even with additional imaging in this retrospective cohort. As conservative managemen...
A 12-year-old boy presented at the emergency department because of right-sided abdominal pain. Laboratory findings and ultrasound examination were suggestive of acute appendicitis. During laparoscopy,...