How To Use Pleural In A Sentence
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For pleural fluid this is done by a pleural tap or chest drain, in ascites with an paracentesis or ascitic drain and in a pericardial effusion with pericardiocentesis.
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The sole patient with benign pleural disease showing a mediastinal pleural involvement on MRI was identified pathologically as tuberculous pleurisy.
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For pleural fluid this is done by a pleural tap or chest drain, in ascites with an paracentesis or ascitic drain and in a pericardial effusion with pericardiocentesis.
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Immediately after thoracotomy, the pleural cavity was carefully washed with 100 mL of physical saline solution, and the fluid was examined.
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Fibroblasts grow into the exudate from both the visceral and parietal pleural surface to produce an inelastic membrane called the pleural peel.
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The median sternotomy is used to gain access to the anterior mediastinum, heart, great vessels, hila and pleural spaces.
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Middle pleural area: in Hymenoptera; the median of the three areas between lateral and pleural carinae: = 2d pleural area.
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Among the extrapulmonary presentations, pleural TB is second in frequency after tuberculous lymphadenitis.
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The most common findings are isolated hilar or mediastinal adenopathy, segmental hyperinflation or atelectasis, alveolar consolidation, interstitial densities, pleural effusion or cavitation.
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Pleural effusions can also be located between the lung and the diaphragm.
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Pancreatic, pulmonary, pleural, laryngeal, adrenal, pericardial, myocardial and lingual leishmaniasis have also been reported.
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Pleural effusion and peripheral adenopathy can occur.
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The second highest lung burden of uncoated fibers (12,908,314 fibers/g dry weight) occurred in an individual with pleural mesothelioma.
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Dyspnea may respond to pleural fluid drainage followed by a pleurodesis procedure that creates a symphysis of the visceral and parietal pleuras, thereby preventing pleural fluid reaccumulation.
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An empyema or complicated pleural effusion can be identified only by examination of the pleural fluid.
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The right pleural effusion was tapped, and it was demonstrated to be a transudate by chemistry.
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Presumptive diagnoses ranged from a malignant pleural tumor to malignancy occupying the complete lower lobe.
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There were several small distant metastases in the upper lobe of the same lung and in the opposite pleura or subpleural lung parenchyma.
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Studies were also conducted to assess the expression of the heavy and light subunits of gamma-GCS in human pleural mesothelium and bronchial epithelium in vivo and the induction of inducible NOS by asbestos fibers.
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The Superior Mediastinum (Fig. 967) is that portion of the interpleural space which lies between the manubrium sterni in front, and the upper thoracic vertebræ behind.
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A 52 year old woman developed acute dyspnoea and hypoxia two hours after rapid drainage of a large left tuberculous pleural effusion.
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Epipleural: the deflexed or inflexed portions of the elytra, immediately beneath the edge: the inflexed portions of the pronotum are sometimes called prothoracic epipleura: as generally used, the term is incorrectly applied to the entire bent under margin of the elytra.
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Foreign bodies ulcerating through may reach the lung without pleural leakage because of the sealing together of the visceral and parietal pleurae.
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On examination, the patient was mildly dyspneic, with massive ascites, left pleural effusion, left axillary lymphadenopathy and no hepatosplenomegaly.
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Dorsum: the upper surface: in Coleoptera; often confined to meso - and meta-thorax: Odonata; includes mesepisterna and meso - and meta-thoracic terga: Diptera; upper surface of thorax, limited by the dorsopleural sutures laterally, the scutellum posteriorly and the neck anteriorly: Lepidoptera; the lower or inner margin of the wing.
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By in situ hybridization, MnSOD mRNA can be detected in arterioles, septal tips of alveolar ducts, endothelial cells, and in pleural mesothelium of hyperoxia-exposed rats.
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Subsequent studies have shown that the penetration of aminoglycosides, particularly gentamicin, into the pleural fluid is poor if an empyema is present.
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Traditionally, syringomyelia has been treated with shunting of the cyst by placement of a catheter between the cyst and the subarachnoid space or pleural cavity.
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After cutting the pleural membrane between the sterna and terga, it was possible to remove the entire genital apparatus with a fine-tipped forceps.
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Objective: To discuss the effective method to treat carcinomatous pleural effusion with BCG - CSN.
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Gibbs concluded that the different prevalences of pleural calcification in some mining areas might be related to a mineral closely associated with chrysotile, such as mica or talc.
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This trial was the first to report a survival advantage from chemotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma showing a statistically significant improvement in median survival from 10 months in the patients treated with cisplatin alone to 13.3 months in the combination pemetrexed group in patients who received supplementation with folate and vitamin B12.
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Pleural fluid and viscera pleura specimens were collected at autopsy.
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In this review we discuss the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and empyema.
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Methods First, the serosal effusion was drained thoroughly, then donor lymphocytes were injected into pleural cavity once for all.
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At autopsy, all remaining pleural fluid was aspirated from the right pleural space.
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Chemical pleurodesis is an effective treatment for malignant pleural effusion and pneumothorax.
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After evacuation of all pleural fluid, a previously described score was used to grade the extent of pleural carcinomatosis score.
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The chest x-ray showed no demonstrable superior mediastinal widening, hilar mass, lung mass or pleural effusion.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the correlation between fibrinogen in pleural effusion and pleural adhesion in tuberculosis exudative pleurisy.
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On admission here, he had a low grade pyrexia, bilateral pleural effusions, and moderate smooth hepatomegaly.
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A visceral pleural line is seen without distal lung markings.
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Chest radiography confirmed bilateral pleural effusions, and her heart was normal size.
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The report on sodium pentachlorophenol poisoning and pleural effusion is rare.
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A chest radiograph shows right pleural wall thickening following the contour of the minor fissure consistent with right pleural effusion.
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Epipleural: the deflexed or inflexed portions of the elytra, immediately beneath the edge: the inflexed portions of the pronotum are sometimes called prothoracic epipleura: as generally used, the term is incorrectly applied to the entire bent under margin of the elytra.
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This was performed only when there was no evidence of fluid in the pleural space as assessed by plain chest roentgenography.
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People, advocate radical make the pleural pneumonectomy.
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It allows the introduction of substances such as talc to obliterate the pleural space called pleurodesis, which prevents more fluid from accumulating and pressing on the lung.
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To demonstrate the role of the type 12 interneuron in mediating swim speed change we cut the pleural-pedal connective to remove the influence of this interneuron from the swim circuit.
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Parietal pleura Visceral pleura Pleural cavity Potential space between the visceral and parietal pleurae Pleurae help divide the thoracic cavity Central mediastinum Two lateral pleural compartments Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
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A 52 year old woman developed acute dyspnoea and hypoxia two hours after rapid drainage of a large left tuberculous pleural effusion.
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Pedunculated bronchogenic cyst mimicking pleural lesion.
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They found that obliteration grade and costal pleural fibrosis score were significantly higher for the treated sides in the mechanical abrasion dogs, compared with the talc slurry-treated dogs.
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The basiventrals form distinct elements that articulate with the pleural ribs in primitive teleosts, and thus act as parapophyses.
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Pulmonary complications, such as pleural effusion, result from retroperitoneal transudation of fluid from the swollen pancreas.
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The adjacent sides of the two pleural sacs are central to the thorax, and form that space which is called mediastinum; the heart is located in this mediastinum, U E, Plate 1.
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Albumin is considered a good marker of capillary permeability in the pleura, because there is no evidence that albumin is produced or stored in pleural mesothelium.
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Autopsies of patients who died of dengue haemorrhagic fever show diffuse petechial haemorrhages in most organs and serous effusions of pericardial, peritoneal, and pleural spaces.
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It is one of the best ways to insufflate talc in the pleural cavity.
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In severe cases of the disease, the following signs and symptoms may be present: blood clots in the veins, which may cause thrombophlebitis disseminated intravascular coagulation a disorder causing severe bleeding in many body organs jaundice, or yellowing of the eyes and skin low blood sugar level pleural effusion pulmonary emboli, or blood clots in the arteries of the lungs severe ascites
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(body cavity) arises as a series of hollow "archenteric" outgrowths, and ms. becomes the alimentary canal.mt. c., the metapleural canals, probably arise subsequently to, and independently of, the general coelomic space, by a splitting in the body-wall substance.
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Objective: To summarize our experience on treatment of bronchopleural fistula through submucosal injection of sclerosing agent -1% polidocanol using flexible bronchoscope.
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These complications include pleural infection or empyema, meningitis, purulent pericarditis, or endocarditis.
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Chest radiography confirmed bilateral pleural effusions, and her heart was normal size.
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First, dichotomizing effusions into exudates and transudates by using a single cutoff point loses much of the information contained in pleural fluid tests, which generate continuous numeric results.
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Pleural fluid LDH is the most accurate overall criterion for classifying pleural effusions into exudates and transudates.
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In view of all the atypical features, it was sensible to aspirate pleural fluid to see if it was a transudate or an exudate.
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These complications include pleural infection or empyema, meningitis, purulent pericarditis, or endocarditis.
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Physical examination of the lungs may reveal rales and pleural effusions.
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The pronotum is the dorsal plate of the prothorax, forming a wide arc over the propectuses and encircling their pleural plates ventrally (
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We previously reported multilevel likelihood ratios with the use of multiple cutoff points for pleural criteria that identify exudative pleural effusions from the registry in 2000 when it contained 1,448 patients.
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One branch ran through the cerebro-pleural connective into the ipsilateral pleural ganglion.
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In both of these studies, prednisone administration did not reduce the development of residual pleural thickening.
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Correlated with the presence of the genital pleurae there is a pair of vascular folds of the basement membrane proceeding from the dorsal wall of the gut in the post-branchial portion of the branchio-genital region, and from the dorsal angles made by the pleural folds with the body-wall in the pharyngeal region; they pass, in their most fully developed condition, to the free border of the genital pleurae.
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Pleural cryptococcosis has been reported to be associated with HIV infection, liver cirrhosis, and Bruton's agammaglobulinemia.
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The most common forms of extra-pulmonary involvement include lymphadenopathies, pleural effusion, pericardial disease, miliary disease and meningitis.
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The effusion is often large and recurrent, arising from a fistulous tract between the pancreas and the pleural cavity, with or without pseudocyst formation.
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Hepatic hydrothorax originates secondary to ascitic fluid movement from the abdominal cavity to the pleural space via defects in the diaphragm.
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We report two cases of broncho- pleural fistula resulting from trans - diaphragmatic migration of the distal catheter of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
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The case centred around pleural plaques, a benign condition which causes scarring to the lung lining and which is caused by exposure to asbestos.
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Egophony results from the change in frequency dependence of sound conduction when fluid replaces air and is heard over consolidation or pleural effusion.
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Debulking surgery left appreciable disease in the abdomen and a malignant pleural effusion.
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The mesothelium consists of a single layer of flattened to cuboidal cells forming the epithelial lining of the serous cavities of the body including the peritoneal, pericardial and pleural cavities.
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The chest radiograph showed a small left pleural effusion and oligemia of the right upper lung field.
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A repeat pleural fluid cytology on one of the occasions was suggestive of signet-ring cell carcinoma.
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The right pleural sac is shorter, wider, and reaches higher in the neck than the left.
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Transverse terrace ridges cross both the axis and pleural region.
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Chemical pleurodesis consists of the introduction of asclerosing agent into the pleural cavity to achieve symphysis of the two pleural layers and, thus, obliteration of the pleural space.
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As hydrostatic pressure continues to increase, fluid begins to accumulate in the pleural space resulting in pleural effusions.
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However, malignant tumors such as poorly differentiated carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma, and atypical carcinoid may have potential to grow, leading to pleural carcinomatosis.
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This suggests that pleural carcinomatosis represents a final common pathway in metastatic disease, and may not, in and of itself, be indicative of a poor prognosis.
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The development of malignant pleural effusion frequently heralds a poor prognosis.
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There has been a single case report of recurrent pneumothorax in a 26-year-old man with a non-Duchenne muscular dystrophy on nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation who had subpleural blebs.
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Interlobular pressure and interpleural pressure result in the same thing, viz., the permanent retention of the air external to the pulmonary cells, which, in the former case, are collapsed individually; and, in the latter case, in the mass.
Surgical Anatomy
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Gibbs concluded that the different prevalences of pleural calcification in some mining areas might be related to a mineral closely associated with chrysotile, such as mica or talc.
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Objective To enhance the awareness of eosinophilic pleural effusion.
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Traditionally, syringomyelia has been treated with shunting of the cyst by placement of a catheter between the cyst and the subarachnoid space or pleural cavity.
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(pronotal hypomera); and the raised lower margin of the epipleural
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Objective:To study the value of detecting the extrapleural hematoma in the evaluation of rib fracture and hemothorax.
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METHODS: We reviewed 50 consecutive patients undergoing extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma in our institution between January 1993 and March 2005.
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The shape was roughly ovoid, but the borders reveal areas of spiculation with extension to the pleural margin.
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Objective To compare the clinical effects of transpleural and extrapleural ligation of patent ductus arteriosus in left oblique subaxillary incision.
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Some of this fluid crosses the visceral pleura and accumulates as a small sterile pleural effusion.
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It is characterized by a massive transudation of a protein-rich fluid from the vascular compartment into the peritoneal, pleural, or, to a lesser extent, pericardial cavities.
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Thoracic empyema is defined as an infection of the pleural space associated with the formation of thick, purulent, pleural fluid.
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A few small lung nodules are also visible. This patient shows a perilymphatic pattern. Subpleural nodules are visible particularly in relation to the major fissures.
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Both muscles are fan shaped with broad basal origins located between the anterior pronotal inflection and the pleural wall of the pronotum.
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Examination of the surgical specimen revealed a lobe of lung with focal hemorrhage and subpleural bullae.
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The Middle Mediastinum (Fig. 968) is the broadest part of the interpleural space.
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pleural muscles
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Objective To compare the clinical effects of transpleural and extrapleural ligation of patent ductus arteriosus in left oblique subaxillary incision.
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The warning follows a High Court test case involving ten people from around the country who suffered pleural plaques - scarring of the lungs - through exposure to asbestos dust.
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The cysts are lined by a smooth, definable wall, with the majority found in basilar, subpleural locations.
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Collagenous - collagen fiber predominates Depending on the amount of collagen fiber - subdivided into: a. Loose - also called as "Areolar tissue" - with numerous potential spaces which can be distended by fluid, blood or pus; found in the papillary layer of dermis, hypodermis, serosal linings of the peritoneal and pleural cavities, pia mater of spinal cord, endomysium of muscles, endoneurium of nerves b.
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Pleural plaques seen in chest x-rays are mostly calcified.
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These complications include pleural infection or empyema, meningitis, purulent pericarditis, or endocarditis.
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It occurs when a one-way valve mechanism is present, enabling entry of air into the pleural space and not permitting its escape.
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The pleural surface seems to provide the optimal mechanism for smooth and frictionless movement of the lungs.
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Chest examination showed some decreased air entry at her left lung base with a loud pleural rub.
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If the lung is fully expansible and fills the pleural cavity while inflated by the anesthetist, talc is insufflated.
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A number of studies have examined the role of corticosteroid therapy for tuberculous pleural effusions, but only two have been prospective, double blind, and randomized.
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For pleural fluid this is done by a pleural tap or chest drain, in ascites with an paracentesis or ascitic drain and in a pericardial effusion with pericardiocentesis.
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For cancer of the pleura pleural mesotheliomaa lung may be removed in an operation called a pneumonectomy.
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Lung burdens of asbestos in these cases are intermediate between asbestosis and pleural plaques.
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Endothorax is composed of invaginations of the tergal, pleural and sternal regions of each thoracic segment.
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Within 48 hours, basilar or central alveolar flooding occurs and pleural effusions are often seen.
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TB pleural effusion usually presents as an acute illness and the symptom duration ranges from a few days to few weeks.
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Tension pneumothorax occurs when pleural damage results in a one-way valve phenomenon allowing air to enter, but not exit, the pleural space.
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When a patient presents with a large unilateral symptomatic pleural effusion many doctors will feel tempted to insert a chest drain.
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A few hours after admission, he suddenly developed acute respiratory distress; chest X-ray demonstrated massive right pleural effusion that failed to response to tube thoracostomy.
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It is not difficult to imagine that once pleural fluid has turned into frank pus, which is viscid and sticky, that simply removing loculations will not necessarily lead to efficient drainage.
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Bill Clinton's exudative pleural effusion is from something else.
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The lungs are contained within the paired pleural cavities in the thorax.
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Radiolabeled colloid injected into the peritoneal cavity can be used to demonstrate the communication between the peritoneal and pleural space.
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Objective Evaluating the efficacy of the treatment of traumatic hemopneumothorax with respiratory trainer Joint Pleural low suction assistant.
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As an indication of more extreme transformations, the frequency of the presence of sternopleural bristles on the proximal lateral prothorax and metathorax was also calculated.
