Thickening of pleura

Known as: fibrosis pleural, fibrosis pleura, pleura thickening

National Institutes of Health

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2015

A 35-year-old male painter presented with left sided pleuritic chest pain and exertional dyspnea. A chest radiograph revealed…

1996

Based upon ultrastructural findings and computed tomography, a presumptive diagnosis of feline primary ciliary dyskinesia was…

1991

Pulmonary function was studied in sixty patients with pleural effusion and seventy patients with fibrothorax. The patients with…

1987

The authors describe a method of liquidation of a postresectional residual cavity by the introduction of the patient's autoblood…

1985

Pulmonary function was measured pre- and postoperatively in 11 decorticated fibrothorax patients using dynamic spirometry and…

1981

Three patients with chronic calcified "fibrothorax" and complicating empyema are reported. The so-called chronic "fibrothorax…

1980

Intrapleural instillation of drugs (chemical pleurodesis) was performed in 57 patients with malignant pleural effusions or…

1980

A 68 year-old woman, treated 30 years ago by collapse therapy for tuberculosis of the lung, presently developed the syndrome of…

1965

1939

IN patients having massive pulmonary fibrosis, or “fibrothorax,” the conventional roentgenogram fails to reveal the essential…