For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized ...

Tetsuro Araki, Masahiro Yanagawa, Fangui Jenny Sun, Josée Dupuis, Mizuki Nishino, Yoshitake Yamada, George R Washko, David C Christiani, Noriyuki Tomiyama, George T O’Connor, Gary M Hunninghake, ...

Empyema is considered to be a sub-classification of parapneumonic pleural effusion. A parapneumonic effusion describes the build-up of activated pleural fluid which is associated with a lung infection ...

Evaluating tumor response and predicting prognosis in patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma, using CT and FDG-PET/CT techniques. A recent research study evaluated the efficiency of ...

Pleural effusions complicate end-stage liver disease in 5% of patients. [5,6] Effusions (defined as 500 mL or more of fluid within the pleural space) are typically right-sided. [7,8] No ...