- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
- 8 Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health
- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
- 11 Nutrition
- 12 Metabolic disorders
- 13 Endocrine disorders
- 14 Medical disorders in pregnancy
- 15 Gastroenterological disorders
- 16 Cardiovascular disorders
- 17 Critical care medicine
- 18 Respiratory disorders
- 18.1 Structure and function
- 18.2 The clinical presentation of respiratory disease
- 18.3 Clinical investigation of respiratory disorders
- 18.4 Respiratory infection
- 18.5 The upper respiratory tract
- 18.6 Allergic rhinitis
- 18.7 Asthma
- 18.8 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- 18.9 Bronchiectasis
- 18.10 Cystic fibrosis
- 18.11 Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases
- 18.12 Sarcoidosis
- 18.13 Pneumoconioses
- 18.14 Miscellaneous conditions
- 18.15 Chronic respiratory failure
- 18.16 Lung transplantation
- 18.17 Pleural diseases
- 18.18 Disorders of the thoracic cage and diaphragm
- 18.19 Malignant diseases
- 18.19.1 Lung cancer
- 18.19.2 Pulmonary metastases
- 18.19.3 Pleural tumours
- 18.19.4 Mediastinal cysts and tumours
- 19 Rheumatological disorders
- 20 Disorders of the skeleton
- 21 Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
- 22 Disorders of the blood
- 23 Disorders of the skin
- 24 Neurological disorders
- 25 The eye
- 26 Psychiatry and drug related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine
Pleural tumours
- Chapter:
- Pleural tumours
- Author(s):
Robert J.O. Davies
and Y.C. Gary Lee
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199204854.003.181903_update_001
Update:
Biomarkers—discussion of utility of serum mesothelin level.
Treatment—(1) increasing usage of indwelling pleural catheters for control of pleural fluid; (2) revised comments on use of radiotherapy and multimodality treatment.
Relevant case histories from Oxford Case Histories in Respiratory Medicine has been added to this chapter.
Case History—A 54 yr old Asian man, and a 19 yr old Chinese man, both with pleural effusions.
Case History—A 68 yr old man with a pleural effusion.
Benign tumours are rare in the pleural cavity, with solitary fibrous tumour of the pleura, the most frequent of these rarities....
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- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
- 8 Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health
- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
- 11 Nutrition
- 12 Metabolic disorders
- 13 Endocrine disorders
- 14 Medical disorders in pregnancy
- 15 Gastroenterological disorders
- 16 Cardiovascular disorders
- 17 Critical care medicine
- 18 Respiratory disorders
- 18.1 Structure and function
- 18.2 The clinical presentation of respiratory disease
- 18.3 Clinical investigation of respiratory disorders
- 18.4 Respiratory infection
- 18.5 The upper respiratory tract
- 18.6 Allergic rhinitis
- 18.7 Asthma
- 18.8 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- 18.9 Bronchiectasis
- 18.10 Cystic fibrosis
- 18.11 Diffuse parenchymal lung diseases
- 18.12 Sarcoidosis
- 18.13 Pneumoconioses
- 18.14 Miscellaneous conditions
- 18.15 Chronic respiratory failure
- 18.16 Lung transplantation
- 18.17 Pleural diseases
- 18.18 Disorders of the thoracic cage and diaphragm
- 18.19 Malignant diseases
- 18.19.1 Lung cancer
- 18.19.2 Pulmonary metastases
- 18.19.3 Pleural tumours
- 18.19.4 Mediastinal cysts and tumours
- 19 Rheumatological disorders
- 20 Disorders of the skeleton
- 21 Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
- 22 Disorders of the blood
- 23 Disorders of the skin
- 24 Neurological disorders
- 25 The eye
- 26 Psychiatry and drug related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine