Publications by authors named "Rami Jouni"
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate long-term survival and prognostic factors in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Methods: All consecutive patients referred for surgical diagnosis and/or pleurodesis for malignant pleural mesothelioma between 2000 and 2010 were studied. The following parameters were prospectively recorded: age, sex, tobacco consumption, asbestos exposure, type and duration of symptoms, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score, body mass index, preoperative C-reactive protein levels, white blood cells and platelet count, pachypleuritis on chest radiograph, type of diagnostic surgical procedure, histologic type, modality of pleurodesis, and chemotherapy.
Background: We retrospectively reviewed our recent experience with thoracoplasty to define its role in the context of current surgical practice.
Methods: Twenty-six patients underwent thoracoplasty in the last 10 years with the aim of obliterating a residual pleural space or pulmonary cavity. Twenty-one patients had a postresectional empyema, 3 had a primary empyema and 2 had a cavernostomy performed for a pulmonary aspergilloma.
Objective: The role of surgery in patients with N2 non-small cell lung cancer is debated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of surgical resection after induction chemotherapy.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the cases of patients with N2 non-small cell lung cancer who underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by resection between 2001 and 2007.