“…Approximately 80 cases of MPE have been reported in the English literature, and we analyzed the clinical characteristics of 57 cases [3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33] based on information and articles we found in MEDLINE (table 1). The mean age of MPE patients was 59 years, with similar gender distribution, and the left pleural cavity was more commonly involved.…”