Commentary: Extended pleurectomy decortication: Step 1, standardized techniques; step 2, standardized documentation

Standardized Geoprocessing - Taking Spatial Data Infrastructures one Step Further

Spatial data infrastructures (SDI) have been widely accepted to share geospatial data among organizations. Today SDI’s main focus lies on distributed data storage in the form of spatial web services, the retrieval through catalogues, and the visualization in form of web map services. The hypothesis presented in this paper takes SDI’s one step further by providing a method to process geodata, in...

Surgical treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma: extrapleural pneumonectomy, pleurectomy/decortication or extended pleurectomy?

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an asbestos-related disease with a dismal prognosis. Ethic, social, legal and economic parameters are implicated in its management. It is quite clear that multimodality therapy is necessary to improve long-term results but precise treatment schemes have not yet been equivocally accepted. The extent of surgery is questioned and radical operations are highl...

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the block size must be O(1= p) can be found in 2]. The observation that the overlap must be O(1= p) was also communicated to the authors by Brandt. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper contains the rst published numerical results and analysis. REFERENCES 1] A. Brandt. Multi{level adaptive solutions to boundary{value problems. 9 The results of this analysis agree with Observation 2....

Extrapleural pneumonectomy or pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is associated with a very poor prognosis. Unlike other solid tumors, any type of planned surgery for MPM would be cytoreductive rather than radical. There are two types of surgery for MPM. Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) involves en bloc resection of the lung, pleura, pericardium, and diaphragm. Pleurectomy/decortication (P/D) is a lung-sparing surgery that...