Thoracic Survey Results Available - July 2008

The following information was given at the beginning of this survey:

"For purposes of this survey, readers were asked to assume that they were consulted on a hospitalized middle aged patient who has been diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. The patient has shortness of breath in the absence of an important pleural effusion. There is no endobronchial obstruction and there is no evidence for pulmonary embolism. A CT scan demonstrates a pericardial effusion. Although echocardiography demonstrates a large pericardial effusion with no evidence for tamponade, there is some mild diastolic collapse."

Read the results here.

And be sure to participate in  the current survey on the Management of Giant Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia here.

These surveys are conceived and constructed by Dr Mark Ferguson, Editor of the CTSNet Thoracic Portal.