The pleura now can be moved from the mediastinum. Once the upper portion of the lung is completely detached from the chest wall, the vessels entering the lung are exposed. On the left side, the ...
Nassau University Medical Center announced the opening on Friday, March 7, of its new thoracic surgery clinic, which will ...
A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...
The pleura, a single layer of mesothelial cells, lines the entire thoracic cavity, and its constituent parts are named according to the tissue that overlies those respective parts. For example ...
You can see details of the main clinical trial on the UCL website. HIT-Meso aims to find out how well a new therapy, called Proton Beam Therapy, can be used to treat pleural mesothelioma patients.
The main objective of our lab is to study thoracic malignancies (lung, esophageal and pleural) with translational approach in collaboration with our partners. We also focus our efforts on the ...