Claudia Poleri, Gabriela Acosta Haab, Nora Falcoff, Gabriela Guman, Liliana Dalurzo, Alejandro Iotti, María Eugenia Martín, Gloria Olmedo, Mercedes Rayá, Atilio Reginatto, Andrea Werbach, Gabriela Demelli, María José Labanca, Laura Leguina, María Florencia Mora
The pathological diagnosis of diffuse pleural mesothelioma (DPM) contributes to treatment selection and clinical trials interpretation. To know its characteristics and evaluate the viability of comprehensive pathological diagnosis of DPM in Argentina we did a retrospective descriptive study of DPM cases reported from 2009 to 2018. We analyzed 398 cases corresponding to 238 (60%) men and 160 (40%) women, median age 66 years, from surgical biopsies (78%), small biopsies (16.5%) and surgical resections (5.5%)...
2022: Medicina