Open AccessPathological evaluation of the visceral pleura in the radical pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients
Author(s) -
Masashi Kobayashi,
Hiroyuki Ishibashi,
Chihiro Takasaki,
Sachiko Imai,
Susumu Kirimura,
Kan 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.