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Malignant Mesothelioma

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Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) can be used at many points in the patient’s pathway through the course of the disease. VATS is the most reliable method of diagnosis and may be combined with mediastinoscopy to give the stage of disease. VATS pleurodesis is the most reliable method of effusion control when the lung re-expands and is the best method of achieving relief of dyspnoea due to lung entrapment by VATS decortication. Furthermore, the cytoreductive effect of this procedure may delay disease progression and prolong survival.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK

    David A. Waller M.D., FRCS(CTh) & Muhammad Javed M.D., MRCS

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  1. Klinik Hirslanden, Thoraxzentrum Zürich, Witellikerstr. 40, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland

    Rolf Gilbert Carl Inderbitzi

  2. , Division of General Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Berne
, Freiburgstr. 2010, Berne, 3010, Switzerland

    Ralph Alexander Schmid

  3. , Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, Pisa, 56100, Italy

    Franca M. A. Melfi

  4. St. Mary's Hospital, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, LONDON, W2 1NY, United Kingdom

    Roberto Pasquale Casula

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Waller, D.A., Javed, M. (2012). Malignant Mesothelioma. In: Inderbitzi, R., Schmid, R., Melfi, F., Casula, R. (eds) Minimally Invasive Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11861-6_21

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