Within a few days, I was scheduled for a pleurodesis, a procedure to remove the pleural space and stick my right lung to my ...

Plaintiffs' trial attorney Mark Linder said a common practice for treating a collapsed lung is a pleurodesis procedure, wherein talc is sprayed on the exterior lining of the lung to reattach it to ...

Sentinel lymph nodes near the breast often are the first to be tested because it's where metastasis (spread) is likely.

Sometimes patients have had prior surgeries or special sealant fluids like pleurodesis instilled into the chest that makes the lungs harder to extract. This may add additional time and the possibility ...

which followed his medical provider's use of "Sterile Talc Powder" in a talc pleurodesis procedure years earlier. Despite the FDA approval of the talc used in the 2014 procedure, attorney ...

PICC line/Chemoport insertion palliative -therapeutic ascitic and pleural tapping/ICD as well as pleurodesis. He has expertise also in management of emergencies like hypercalcemia, febrile ...