Mesothelioma

external

• Causes

  • Crocidolite
  • Male gender
  • Old age

• Effects

  • Dull chest pain
  • Dyspnoea
  • Cough
  • Pleural thickening
  • Exudate pleural effusion
  • Malignant pleural effusion
  • Fingernail clubbing
  • Inappropriate ADH secretion
  • Restrictive pulmonary disease
  • Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
  • Pneumonectomy

• Parents

  • Lung malignancy

• Treatments

  • Pneumonectomy
  • Cisplatin
  • Pleurodesis

• Description

  • "Prognosis = 1 year Latency - 40 yrs "