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Clinical Trial
Malignant pleural effusions: treatment with small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis.
- E M Marom, E F Patz, J J Erasmus, H P McAdams, P C Goodman, and J E Herndon.
- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
- Radiology. 1999 Jan 1;210(1):277-81.
AbstractThirty-two patients with a known primary malignancy and a symptomatic malignant pleural effusion underwent small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis. Twenty-three patients (72%) had a complete response; four (12%), a partial response; and five (16%), no response. Symptoms in all those who responded were clinically improved. Complications included fever in 13 patients (41%) and moderate shortness of breath, chest pain, or both in six (19%). Small-bore-catheter thoracostomy and talc pleurodesis was successful in treating malignant pleural effusions.
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