Lung cancer surgery is the primary treatment for lung cancer, when possible. Learn about the multiple types of lung cancer surgery, procedures, and associated risks.

Father Muller Medical College Hospital has successfully treated a rare and high-risk fetal condition—non-immune hydrops ...

Cancer treatment has long faced a challenging trade-off: therapies strong enough to eliminate tumors often cause severe side effects. One promising solution involves cytokines, natural proteins that ...

As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading ...

We proposed an approach to increase the pressure gradient between the peritoneal cavity and the pleural cavity on imaging, so that the insufficient sensitivities of the imaging modalities for the ...

CASE PRESENTATION A 63-year-old man with multiple rib fractures following a traffic accident was readmitted for chest tube drainage 19 days after trauma, due to delayed haemothorax. Four days later, ...

The finding of a ‘milky’ pleural fluid in a neonate could be due to chylothorax, empyema, leakage of lipid in parenteral nutrition fluid from a central line or extravasated milk from a perforated ...

The interior wall of the chest cavity is lined with the parietal pleural membrane. A second visceral pleural membrane covers the lungs and other structures lying within the cavity.

The rationale is to prevent spread of fungal organisms into the pleural cavity during the procedure, which may result in an Aspergillus empyema. If spillage of cavity contents is observed, a ...

The long-running SSB Law saga is simply unacceptable. Innocent people who had already fallen victim to the cavity wall insulation scandal have had their misery compounded by weaknesses in the ...

Abstract Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) arises from mesothelial cells lining the pleural cavity of asbestos‐exposed individuals and rapidly leads to death. MPM harbors loss‐of‐function mutations ...