Foreign body granuloma mimicking recurrence of malignant pleural mesothelioma

A 72-year-old man visited our hospital due to right pleural effusion. He had worked as a welder at a shipbuilding company and had been exposed to asbestos. Cytological examination and thoracoscopic pleural biopsy yielded a diagnosis of epithelial malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM); extrapleural pn...

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Published in:Respir Med Case Rep
Main Authors: Nakasuka, Takamasa, Fujimoto, Nobukazu, Hara, Naofumi, Miyamoto, Yosuke, Yamagishi, Tomoko, Asano, Michiko, Nishi, Hideyuki, Kishimoto, Takumi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681966/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26744667
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.09.002
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