Question:
How is clinical presentation of mesothelioma?
Author: H KAnswer:
• Early stages: dyspnea (pleural effusion). • Continuous chest discomfort. • Advanced stage: - excruciating chest pain (tumor infiltration of the chest wall and intercostal nerves). - sense of chest tightness and dyspnea caused by entrapment of the lung by tumor. - severe and unremitting dyspnea and chest pain Uncommon sx (cough, weakness, anorexia, fever, hemoptysis, hoaseness, dysphagia, horner's)
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