A 62-year-old man with asthma sought care for intermittent fever, cough with expectoration, breathlessness and orthopnoea with grunting. Computed tomography revealed clusters of centrilobular nodules on both sides with a tree-in-bud appearance and mild diffuse bronchial wall thickening. Sputum sample grew pure colonies of Actinobacillus ureae which was confirmed by MALDI-TOF and 16SrRNA gene se...

The introduction of long-chain branched structures into biodegradable polyesters can effectively improve the melt strength and blow-molding properties polyesters. In this study, pentaerythritol (PER) was used as a branching agent to synthesize poly(butylene dodecanedioate) (PBD), resulting polymers were characterized by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Proton Spectra (1H NMR) Fourier Transform Infrar...

conclusion ct scan is highly accurate in differentiating malignant pleural mesothelioma and metastatic pleural diseases. pleural thickening and thickening of interlobar fissure lead us to the diagnosis of mpm and massive free pleural effusion is more commonly seen in metastatic pleural malignancy. background malignant pleural mesothelioma (mpm) is a rare malignant neoplasm of the pleura that ty...