Complications and Predictive Factors for Air Leak > 10 Days with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Pleurectomy/Decortication for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.
Akifumi NakamuraNobuyuki KondoToru NakamichiMasaki HashimotoTeruhisa TakuwaSeiji MatsumotoKozo KuribayashiTakashi KijimaSeiki HasegawaPublished in: Annals of surgical oncology (2020)
Recent postoperative mortality rates in NAC followed by P/D are quite acceptable. Approximately one in every three patients experienced AL10, and PS may be a risk factor associated with AL10.