A 37-year-old pregnant woman presented at 18 weeks' gestation with unrelenting chest and shoulder pain, massive pleural effusion, and a large thoracic mass. Biopsy revealed an undifferentiated sarcomatous pleural mesothelioma. Malignant mesothelioma is a rare thoracic malignancy, which has not been
Malignant mesothelioma in Australia, 1945–2000
✍ Scribed by James Leigh; Patricia Davidson; Leigh Hendrie; Dale Berry
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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