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.
264 Cancer Control October 2006, Vol. 13, No. 4. Introduction. Primary tumors of the pleura present grossly as either. diffuse or localized neoplasms. The tumors with a dif-. fuse pattern, known as diffuse pleural mesotheliomas. arising from the mesothelial cells lining the pleura,are. usually highly malignant and are commonly associated. with asbestos exposure.