Prognostic significance of pleural or pericardial effusion and Slides: 5 Download presentation Prognostic significance of pleural or pericardial effusion and the implication of optimal treatment in primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma: a multicenter retrospective study in Japan by Tomohiro Aoki, Koji Izutsu, Ritsuro Suzuki, Chiaki Nakaseko, Hiroshi Arima, Kazuyuki Shimada, Akihiro Tomita, Makoto Sasaki, Jun Takizawa, Kinuko Mitani, Tadahiko Igarashi, Yoshinobu Maeda, Noriko Fukuhara, Fumihiro Ishida, Nozomi Niitsu, Ken Ohmachi, Hirotaka Takasaki, Naoya Nakamura, Tomohiro Kinoshita, Shigeo Nakamura, and Michinori Ogura haematol Volume 99(12): 1817 -1825 December 3, 2014 © 2014 by Ferrata Storti Foundation Patients’ characteristics. Tomohiro Aoki et al. Haematologica 2014; 99: 1817 -1825 © 2014 by Ferrata Storti Foundation Survival of patients with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma. Tomohiro Aoki et al. Haematologica 2014; 99: 1817 -1825 © 2014 by Ferrata Storti Foundation Risk factors for overall survival, progression-free survival and early relapse for patients treated with R-CHOP without consolidative radium therapy. Tomohiro Aoki et al. Haematologica 2014; 99: 1817 -1825 © 2014 by Ferrata Storti Foundation Survival of patients with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma according to the International Prognostic Index and the presence pleural or pericardial effusion. Tomohiro Aoki et al. Haematologica 2014; 99: 1817 -1825 © 2014 by Ferrata Storti Foundation Hydrothorax causesKerley b linesAnterior axillary lineWhat causes tactile fremitusThroaxPleural effusion color chart