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Respir Med
February 2023
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Northern Health, Epping, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address:
Pleural diseases are common and frequently result in disabling symptoms, impaired health-related quality of life and hospitalisation. Both diagnosis and management often require pleural procedures and despite a variety of pain control strategies available for clinicians to employ, many procedures are still complicated by pain and discomfort. This can interfere with procedure success and can limit patient satisfaction.
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Department of Surgery, Okinawa National Hospital, Ginowan, Japan.
The patient was a woman in her 70's was referred to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow on chest roentgenogram at an annual medical checkup. Since preoperative examinations suggested lung cancer in the right middle lobe, thoracoscopic right middle lobectomy was planned. However, pleural dissemination was detected at surgery and we changed the treatment plan to the intrapleural hyperthermic chemotherapy.
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