A goitre is an enlarged thyroid gland. Some people with a goitre (but not all) have an underactive or overactive thyroid. This means that they make too much or too little thyroid hormone. There are various causes of goitre and treatment depends on the cause.
Chemical pleurodesis is a well-accepted, palliative therapy for patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion. A multitude of chemical agents have been used in attempted pleurodesis.n the 6 other patients with malignant pleural effusions, 2 had pleural abrasion prior to talc poudrage, whereas 4 had only talc slurry pleurodesis. Therefore, it would have been more appropriate for the authors to state that, with 89 pleurodeses, 4 patients developed ARDS, which may have been solely related to talc.
A varicocele /ËvaerÉ¨kÉµsiËl/ ËvÃ¦rÉ¨kÉµsiËl is an abnormal enlargement of the pampiniform venous plexus in the. scrotumefective valves, or compression of the vein by a nearby structure, can cause dilatation of the testicular veins near the testis, leading to the formation of a varicocele. Varicocele is known as one of the main causes for male infertility and can be treated by a surgery or non-surgical treatments.