Clinical Trial: Effectiveness of Intercostal Tube Drainage Vs Pigtail Catheter Drainage Vs Ultrasound-Guided Aspiration in Management of Massive Malignant Pleural Effusion

U.S., May 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06964321) titled 'Effectiveness of Intercostal Tube Drainage Vs Pigtail Catheter Drainage Vs Ultrasound-Guided Aspiration in Management of Massive Malignant Pleural Effusion' on May 01.

Brief Summary: Pleural effusion is common in different diseases and especially malignant effusions can have fast onset symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnoea, and coughing. Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is an exudative effusion with malignant cells.

It is a common symptom and accompanying presentation of metastatic disease. It Impacts up to 15% of all patients with cancer and is the most common in breast, lung, cancer, lymphoma, and gynaecological malignancies . The...