Ghost chest tube after talc pleurodesis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Dry talc pleurodesis via chest tube.
1 Harik-Khan R, Fleg J, Wise R. Body mass index and the risk of COPD. Chest 2002; 121:370–376 2 Chapman KR, Tashkin DP, Pye DJ. Gender bias in the diagnosis of COPD. Chest 2001; 119:1691–1695 3 Harik-Khan RI, Wise RA, Fleg JL. The effect of gender on the relationship between body fat distribution and lung function. J Clin Epidemiol 2001; 54:399–406 4 Wise RA, Enright PL, Connett JE, et al. Effe...
متن کاملChest wall tumour following iodized talc pleurodesis.
Chest wall tumour following iodized talc pleurodesis. A man of 37 had an iodized talc pleurodesis carried out for recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax. There was no history of industrial exposure to asbestos. Two years latei he presented with pain in the right chest and radiographs at that time showed some localized pleural thickening at the site of the thoracoscopy cannulation for introduction o...
متن کاملTalc slurry pleurodesis via chest tube in department of pulmonology--a 24-case study.
INTRODUCTION Chemical pleurodesis is an accepted palliative therapy for patients with recurrent and symptomatic pleural effusion. The aim of the study is to present our own experiences with a less invasive variant of this procedure performed with talc slurry administered via a chest tube under local anaesthesia. Available medical literature in Polish does not contain information about this type...
متن کاملSterilization of Talc for Pleurodesis *
Although talc has been used as a pleurodesis agent since 1935, a sterilization protocol has not been established. We obtained USP asbestos-free talc from six different suppliers and sterilized each using dry heat, gamma irradiation, and ethylene oxide gas. Aerobic, anaerobic, and fungal cultures were obtained prior to sterilization, and 1, 30, and 90 days after sterilization. Bacillus species w...
متن کاملFluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and CT after talc pleurodesis.
BACKGROUND Talc pleurodesis is widely performed for the management of persistent pneumothorax or pleural effusion, particularly malignant effusions. However, there are very few data characterizing fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) and CT findings after treatment. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the FDG-PET and CT studies of nine patients who underwent talc pleur...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Case Reports
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2050-0904,2050-0904
DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.3084