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.
â¢ MALIGNANT NEUROMA (noun). The noun MALIGNANT NEUROMA has 1 sense: 1. a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue. Familiarity information: MALIGNANT NEUROMA used as a noun is very rare.Dictionary entry details.he noun MALIGNANT NEUROMA has 1 sense: 1. a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue. Familiarity information: MALIGNANT NEUROMA used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details.