Pathological evaluation of the visceral pleura in the radical pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients | Zendy

Masashi Kobayashi | Zendy; Hironori Ishibashi | Zendy; Chihiro Takasaki | Zendy; Sachiko Imai | Zendy; Susumu Kirimura | Zendy; Kenichi Okubo | Zendy

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Pathological evaluation of the visceral pleura in the radical pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients

Author(s) -

Masashi Kobayashi,

Hironori Ishibashi,

Chihiro Takasaki,

Sachiko Imai,

Susumu Kirimura,

Kenichi Okubo

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.02.54

Subject(s) - medicine , decortication , pleurectomy , mesothelioma , parenchyma , pathology , dissection (medical) , lung , pathological , radiology , peritoneal mesothelioma

Radical pleurectomy/decortication (P/D) is applied as a surgical treatment of resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Although P/D removed visceral pleura, dissection plain was not histologically explored previously. We examined a pathological evaluation of surgically removed visceral pleura in P/D.

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