Surgical treatment in malignant pleural effusion

Şule Karadayı

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.20580

Şule Karadayı¹, Ekber Şahin¹

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medicine Faculty of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.20580

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Malignant pleural effusion can be described as the presence of exudate in the pleural space, accompanied by the detection of cancer cells in pleural fluid or tissue, which is the indicator of the disease in its advance stages, and survival time of these patients ranges between 3 and 12 months. Treatment options for malignant pleural effusion vary from observation in asymptomatic patients to pleurectomies or even extrapleural pneumonectomies in severe cases.

Keywords : Malignancy, pleural effusion, pleural metastasis, pleurectomy, tunneled pleural catheter

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