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
Serum hyaluronate in malignant pleural mesothelioma
โ Scribed by Thierry Frebourg; Guy Lerebours; Bertrand Delpech; Daniel Benhamou; Philippe Bertrand; Catherine Maingonnat; Christian Boutin; Georges Nouvet
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 339 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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