Pleurectomy decortication is the preferred surgical procedure in pleural mesothelioma

Moshe Lapidot; Raphael Bueno

doi:10.21037/tlcr-22-906

Pleurectomy decortication is the preferred surgical procedure in pleural mesothelioma

Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2023 Feb 28;12(2):190-192. doi: 10.21037/tlcr-22-906. Epub 2023 Feb 14.

Authors

Moshe Lapidot^{1

2}, Raphael Bueno¹

Affiliations

¹ The International Mesothelioma Program, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel.

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Keywords: Pleural mesothelioma (PM); extended pleurectomy decortication (EPD); extra pleural pneumonectomy (EPP); macroscopic complete resection (MCR).

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