Pleura

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative evaluation of intrapleural and thoracic epidural analgesia for postoperative pain relief after minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Antioxidant defense mechanisms in cultured pleural mesothelial cells. 
  • Assessment of pleural invasion and adhesion of lung tumors with dynamic chest radiography: A virtual clinical imaging study. 
  • Biopersistence of refractory ceramic fiber in human lung tissue and a 20-year follow-up of radiographic pleural changes in workers. 
  • CT appearance of the pleural space after talc pleurodesis. 
  • Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor of pleura. A report of three cases of a newly described entity involving the pleura. 
  • Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor of pleura: radiologic features in three cases. 
  • Cephradine concentrations in serum, pleural fluid, pleura, and lung of normal rabbits. 
  • Comparison of pleural responses of rats and hamsters to subchronic inhalation of refractory ceramic fibers. 
  • Comparison of pulmonary and pleural responses of rats and hamsters to inhaled refractory ceramic fibers. 
  • Cystic fibrosis: usefulness of thoracic CT in the examination of patients before lung transplantation. 
  • Dataset for Reporting of Malignant Mesothelioma of the Pleura or Peritoneum: Recommendations From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). 
  • Detection of human telomerase reverse transcriptase mRNA in cells obtained by lavage of the pleura is not associated with worse outcome in patients with stage I/II non-small cell lung cancer: results from Cancer and Leukemia Group B 159902. 
  • Diagnosis of diffuse malignant mesothelioma: experience of a US/Canadian Mesothelioma Panel. 
  • Differentiating lung abscess and empyema: radiography and computed tomography. 
  • Effect of erionite on the pleural mesothelium of the Fischer 344 rat. 
  • Effect of fibrous glass on rat pleural mesothelium. Histopathologic observations. 
  • Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the pleura: clinical and radiologic features. 
  • Expression of growth factor and growth factor receptor RNA in rat pleural mesothelial cells in culture. 
  • High vascular pressure-induced lung injury requires P450 epoxygenase-dependent activation of TRPV4. 
  • In situ images of the thoracic paravertebral space. 
  • Inadvertent transbronchial insertion of narrow-bore feeding tubes into the pleural space. 
  • Inhaled carbon nanotubes reach the subpleural tissue in mice. 
  • Interleukin 12 at the site of disease in tuberculosis. 
  • Intrapleural administration of AAV9 improves neural and cardiorespiratory function in Pompe disease. 
  • Intrapleural analgesia for post-thoracotomy pain and blood levels of bupivacaine following intrapleural injection. 
  • Intrapleural cisplatin and mitomycin for malignant mesothelioma following pleurectomy: pharmacokinetic studies. 
  • Local failure in resected N1 lung cancer: implications for adjuvant therapy. 
  • Longitudinal decline in lung function among older construction workers. 
  • Lymphangitic carcinomatosis: A common radiographic manifestation of local failure following extended pleurectomy/decortication in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. 
  • Malignant mesothelioma in women. 
  • Mesothelial cell proliferation induced by intrapleural instillation of man-made fibers in rats and hamsters. 
  • Outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic decortication. 
  • Parenchymal scarring is associated with restrictive spirometric defects in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Percutaneous drainage of pleural collections. 
  • Perioperative complications with costotransversectomy and anterior approaches to thoracic and thoracolumbar tumors. 
  • Physiology of cardiac tamponade and paradoxical pulse in conscious dogs. 
  • Pleural dosimetry and pathobiological responses in rats and hamsters exposed subchronically to MMVF 10a fiberglass. 
  • Pleural effects of indium phosphide in B6C3F1 mice: nonfibrous particulate induced pleural fibrosis. 
  • Pleural effusion and renal cell carcinoma: an angiographic-pathologic correlation. 
  • Pleural lesions in Syrian golden hamsters and Fischer-344 rats following intrapleural instillation of man-made ceramic or glass fibers. 
  • Pleural macrophage recruitment and activation in asbestos-induced pleural injury. 
  • Pulmonary and pleural leukocytes from F344 rats produce elevated levels of fibronectin following inhalation of refractory ceramic fibers. 
  • Pulmonary and pleural responses in Fischer 344 rats following short-term inhalation of a synthetic vitreous fiber. I. Quantitation of lung and pleural fiber burdens. 
  • Pulmonary and pleural responses in Fischer 344 rats following short-term inhalation of a synthetic vitreous fiber. II. Pathobiologic responses. 
  • Radiographic appearance of the chest after pleural space reduction procedures: construction of a pleural tent and phrenoplasty. 
  • Review and update of uncommon primary pleural tumors: a practical approach to diagnosis. 
  • Sarcoidosis: correlation of pulmonary parenchymal pattern at CT with results of pulmonary function tests. 
  • Soluble ICAM-1, MCP-1, and MIP-2 protein secretion by rat pleural mesothelial cells following exposure to amosite asbestos. 
  • Studies on the inhalation toxicology of two fiberglasses and amosite asbestos in the Syrian golden hamster. Part II. Results of chronic exposure. 
  • Submucosal glands are the predominant site of CFTR expression in the human bronchus. 
  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Pleura: Advances Since the 2015 Classification. 
  • The contribution of leukocytes and bacteria to the low pH of empyema fluid. 
  • The proposed new international TNM staging system for malignant pleural mesothelioma: application to imaging. 
  • The role of analytical SEM in the determination of causation in malignant mesothelioma. 
  • The separation of benign and malignant mesothelial proliferations. 
  • Trisomy of rat chromosome 1 associated with mesothelial cell transformation. 
  • Value of intraoperative pleural lavage in staging non-small cell lung cancer. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nielsen, Karen Cristina, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Ambulatory
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology