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Cardiothoracic Surgery

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How is clinical presentation of mesothelioma?

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• Early stages: dyspnea (pleural effusion). • Continuous chest discomfort. • Advanced stage: - excruciating chest pain (tumor infiltration of the chest wall and intercostal nerves). - sense of chest tightness and dyspnea caused by entrapment of the lung by tumor. - severe and unremitting dyspnea and chest pain Uncommon sx (cough, weakness, anorexia, fever, hemoptysis, hoaseness, dysphagia, horner's)


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