Catheter is placed called Tunneled indwelling pleural catheter, so you can have pleural effusion at home. Draining the catheter 2-3 times week or as directed by the physician.

However, among patients who also had pleural thickening or lesions alongside pleural effusion, IA-ANPB's sensitivity climbed to 88.1% with a negative likelihood ratio of 0.12, which was ...

Lung POCUS has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratorypathologies, ...

Post-thoracentesis ultrasound and chest radiography are equally effective in assessing pleural space evacuation in simple pleural effusions.

On the other hand, pleural effusion localized in an interlobar space is not a common finding, since only 15 cases have been recorded in the literature. 1–11 Multiple, localized pleural effusions ...

Original Article Published: 29 June 2012 Management of malignant pleural effusion by suicide gene therapy in advanced stage lung cancer: a case series and literature review P Zarogoulidis, E ...