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Pleurectomy Versus Radical Pleuropneumonectomy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

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Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease that even with therapy is almost always uniformly fatal. Modern day multimodality therapy combined with surgery has seen success with 5-year survival in a very small, select group of patients. Putting aside the controversy regarding whether surgery should be part of the treatment, there is considerable debate about which operative approach is best. These two approaches are broadly characterized as either lung-sacrificing or lung-sparing. While the available data still does not provide an absolute answer, management of MPM should take place in the setting of a multidisciplinary team with a multimodality approach, and preferably in a clinical trial setting.

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  1. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Shamus R. Carr MD

  2. Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joseph S. Friedberg MD

  3. Department of Surgery, PENN Presbyterian Medical Center, 51 North 39th Street, 250 Wright-Saunders Building, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Joseph S. Friedberg MD

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Carr, S.R., Friedberg, J.S. (2014). Pleurectomy Versus Radical Pleuropneumonectomy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. In: Ferguson, M. (eds) Difficult Decisions in Thoracic Surgery. Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach, vol 1. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6404-3_50

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