Pleural Mesothelioma

An exhibition, sometimes short (one to two years) or longer can trigger the phenomenon that will lead twenty-twenty-five years before the onset of the disease.
When observing a patient, a pleural tumor, type of mesothelioma, the interrogation is to try to find if the patient has been exposed to asbestos. Mesotheliomas are usually localized. Sometimes, when the tumor is malignant, it may appear metastases.

Most often, these mesotheliomas are marked by a pleural effusion, which masks the underlying tumor. To make the diagnosis, we help each other often pleural biopsy needle. Sometimes a biopsy pleuroscopie (under anesthesia by inserting a small endoscope into the pleura) is needed to pinpoint the location of the tumor and to a levy at this level.
Treatment is primarily surgical, sometimes supplemented by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The active research is ongoing to better understand the link between exposure to asbestos and the onset, years later, these pleural tumors.