Pleural effusion, also called water on the lung, happens when fluid builds up in the space between your lungs and chest cavity. You may have symptoms, such as chest pain, depending on the cause. Thin ...

More than 30% of patients with pleural infection either die or require surgery. Drainage of infected fluid is key to successful treatment, but intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy did not improve ...

Is “Grey’s Anatomy” on tonight (May 30, 2024)? YES. ABC’s long-running medical drama airs its 430th episode, titled “Burn It Down,” on Thursday night. It serves as the highly anticipated Season 20 ...

In this review, we reflect on the limited effect of the few positive phase 3 randomized, controlled studies, as well as recent trials examining the benefit of immunotherapy. We speculate about how ...

In patients with small, peripheral non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), visceral pleural invasion leads to worse disease-free and recurrence-free survival as well as higher rates of recurrence, ...

A 61-y-old woman was attended by our team. She had suffered a chest traumatism resulting in three right costal fractures with multiple costoesternal desinsertion. It determined a functional ‘volet’ ...

To develop a method to deliver mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the pleural cavity for the treatment of pleural diseases. MSCs were isolated from rat bone marrow of rats and labeled with ...

Anatomy is the identification and description of the structures of living things. It is a branch of biology and medicine. People who study anatomy study the body, how it is made up, and how it works.