Pleura

• pleural chondroid metaplasia
  27 January

  Associations
  in IgG4-related disease PMID: #31965113#

• pleural thickening
  3 September 2021

  Images
  Macroscopy : pleural thickening in mesothelioma https://twitter.com/atman_ci/status/1433668778101989376
  Etiology
  pachypleuritis
  pleural mesothelioma
  See also
  pleural anomalies

• eosinophilic pleuritis
  19 June 2017

  Examples
  reactive eosinophilic pleuritis in a pneumothorax case https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/715174525743284224
  See also
  pleuritis

• pneumothorax
  20 April 2017

  Examples
  reactive eosinophilic pleuritis in a pneumothorax case https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/715174525743284224 Etiology
  Spontaneous: due to abscess , tuberculosis , emphysema , asthma
  Traumatic: due to puncture of chest wall or lung
  Therapeutic: formerly used to treat tuberculosis
  Spontaneous idiopathic: young people, rupture of small, peripheral, apical subpleural bleb (s), usually subsides spontaneously, but may recur and be disabling primary spontaneous (...)

• pleural fibrosis
  11 April 2017

  Definition: fibrosis of the visceral pleura so that part or all of a lung becomes covered with a plaque or a thick layer of nonexpansible fibrous tissue. The more extensive form is called fibrothorax.
  See also
  subpleural fibrosis

• pachypleuritis
  11 April 2017

  Definition: inflammation of the pleura with thickening of the membrane.
  Synopsis
  pleural thickening
  See also
  chronic pleuritis
  fibrothorax
  pleural fibrosis

• pleural fibrous tumors
  18 November 2016

  Examples
  pleural solitary fibrous tumor (SFT)
  See also
  pleural tumors
  fibrous tumors

• pleural biopsy
  2 July 2016

  Biospy
  Ideally, pathologists should play an advisory role in determining the approach to the pleural biopsy, as they will be faced with the challenge of interpretation. The optimal biopsy techniques when MM is a serious diagnostic consideration are either a video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy or open pleural biopsy.
  The attending surgeon’s evaluation of the pleura should be sought whenever the biopsy interpretation is in doubt. The gross appearance of a pleural surface diffusely studded by (...)

• pleural papillary tumors
  31 May 2016

  Images
  https://twitter.com/dozing_dog/status/737497843464704000
  Examples
  epithelioid mesothelioma
  pleural metastasis pleural metastasis of ovarian carcinoma pleural metastasis of mammary carcinoma pleural metastasis of digestive carcinoma
  See also
  mesothelial tumors mesotheliomas / mesothelioma
  pleural epithelioid tumors pleural papillary tumors

• pleural epithelioid tumors
  31 May 2016

  Images
  https://twitter.com/dozing_dog/status/737497843464704000
  Etiology
  epithelioid mesothelioma
  pleural metastasis pleural metastasis of ovarian carcinoma pleural metastasis of mammary carcinoma pleural metastasis of digestive carcinoma
  See also
  mesothelial tumors mesotheliomas / mesothelioma
  pleural epithelioid tumors pleural papillary tumors

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