Breast cancer complicated by pleural eff
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Justus P. Apffelstaedt; J. A. van Zyl; A. G. S. Muller
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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To evaluate the efficiency of pleurodesis (PD) in the management of symptomatic malignant pleural effusion (PE) in breast cancer, we reviewed 46 patients undergoing 49 PDs. When radiotherapy was part of the initial treatment, 41% of PEs were ipsilateral to the primary, if not, 85% of PEs were ipsila