Predicting survival in patients with recurrent symptomatic malignant pleural effusions: an assessment of the prognostic values of physiologic, morphologic, and quality of life measures of extent of disease.

Purpose: To determine the prognostic value of pleural fluid pH, pleural fluid glucose, extent of pleural carcinomatosis (EPC) score, and Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) score in patients with recurrent symptomatic malignant pleural effusions.Design: Prospective 53-month study.Setting: Referral cen...

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Publicado en:CHEST Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 73 - 79
Autores principales: Burrows, C M, Mathews, W C, Colt, H G
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: American College of Chest Physicians 2000 Jan
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