Surgical management of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The uniquely diffuse nature of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) makes it difficult to diagnose, stage, and treat. In addition, it is a relatively uncommon disease, making adequate prospective trials difficult to perform and leading to several controversies regarding the best management of MPM. Perhaps the greatest area of dispute is whether extrapleural pneumonectomy or pleurectomy/decortication is the most appropriate curative operation for patients who are physiologically candidates for both. Although median survival remains poor, important strides have been made in the treatment of MPM, mainly in the form of multimodality therapeutic regimens.

publication date

  • February 1, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Mesothelioma
  • Pleural Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84870318470

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2012.10.002

PubMed ID

  • 23206719

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 23

issue

  • 1