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Thoracentesis
Known as:
Chest Aspirations
, Pleural Cavity Tap
, Aspirations, Chest
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Aspiration of fluid or air from the THORACIC CAVITY. It is coupled sometimes with the administration of drugs into the PLEURAL CAVITY.
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Paracentesis
Pleural effusion disorder
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2014
2014
Medical thoracoscopy: a useful diagnostic tool for undiagnosed pleural effusion.
A. Agarwal
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R. Prasad
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R. Garg
,
S. Verma
,
Abhijeet Singh
,
N. Husain
Indian journal of chest diseases & allied…
2014
Corpus ID: 502221
OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the role of medical thoracoscopy in patients with undiagnosed pleural effusion. METHODS Patiens…
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2009
2009
Left-sided pleural effusion secondary to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
L. Nässberger
Acta Medica Scandinavica
2009
Corpus ID: 356980
A young woman with diabetes mellitus and subsequent renal insufficiency developed a massive left-sided pleural effusion secondary…
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2006
2006
Expression of human mammaglobin gene in pleural effusions of patients with malignant mesothelioma
A. Carletti
,
S. Roncella
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+5 authors
F. Fedeli
Thorax
2006
Corpus ID: 8486142
Human mammaglobin (hMAM) is a 10 kd protein of unknown function originally identified through a differential screening approach…
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2004
2004
Pyogenic Liver Abscess: Demographic, Clinical, Radiological and Bacteriological Characteristics and Management Strategies
Qurban Ali Bugti
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Mohammad Aslam Baloch
,
Ahsan ul Wadood
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Akther Hameed Mulghani
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Bushra Azeem
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J. Ahmed
2004
Corpus ID: 46230405
Objective: To determine the demographic, clinical, radiological and bacteriological characteristics of pyogenic liver abscess and…
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1996
1996
Antenatal and postnatal treatment of pleural effusion and extra-lobar pulmonary sequestration
V. Chan
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A. Greenough
,
K. Nicolaides
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
1996
Corpus ID: 42103626
An infant is reported who was identified antenatally to have an extralobar sequestration and a pleural effusion. Chronic drainage…
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1989
1989
Diagnostic significance of pleural fluid eosinophilia during initial thoracocentesis.
M. Lakhotia
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S. Mehta
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D. Mathur
,
C. Baid
,
A. Varma
Indian journal of chest diseases & allied…
1989
Corpus ID: 41201876
A prospective study of pleural fluid eosinophilia (PFE) during initial thoracocentesis in 162 patients of pleural effusion was…
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1977
1977
Mepacrine hydrochloride in the treatment of malignant pleural effusion. A controlled randomized trial.
J. Mejer
,
K. Mortensen
,
H. Hansen
Scandinavian journal of respiratory diseases
1977
Corpus ID: 42503617
The effect of local instillation of mepacrine hydrochloride (quinacrine hydrochloride U.S.P., Atabrine) was compared with…
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1977
1977
Mediastinal compression due to tension hydrothorax.
R. deSouza
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N. Lipsett
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S. V. Spagnolo
Chest
1977
Corpus ID: 8487287
We describe a patient in whom a malignant pleural effusion accumulated with sufficient pressure to cause mediastinal compression…
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1972
1972
Actinomycosis treated with clindamycin.
H. D. Rose
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M. Rytel
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
1972
Corpus ID: 5113289
To the Editor.— Although penicillin has been established as the treatment of choice for actinomycosis, patients with penicillin…
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1959
1959
Preliminary Investigation on the Growth of Natural Snow Crystals by the Use of Observation Points Distributed Vertically
C. Magono
1959
Corpus ID: 127695931
The Cloud Physics Group of Japan made observations of snow crystal forms by various methods at five observation points which were…
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