LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Spontaneous pleurodesis rates in chemotherapy and non-chemotherapy patients undergoing indwelling pleural catheter insertion for malignant pleural effusion

Parthipan Sivakumar (Harpenden, United Kingdom), Parthipan Sivakumar, Alex West, Charleen Chan Wah Hak, Farinaz Noorzad, Liju Ahmed

Source: International Congress 2016 – Mesothelioma and pleural disease: from the bench to the bedside
Session: Mesothelioma and pleural disease: from the bench to the bedside
Session type: Oral Presentation
Number: 494
Disease area: Respiratory critical care, Thoracic oncology

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Parthipan Sivakumar (Harpenden, United Kingdom), Parthipan Sivakumar, Alex West, Charleen Chan Wah Hak, Farinaz Noorzad, Liju Ahmed. LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Spontaneous pleurodesis rates in chemotherapy and non-chemotherapy patients undergoing indwelling pleural catheter insertion for malignant pleural effusion. Eur Respir J 2016; 48: Suppl. 60, 494

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