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Microbiological confirmation of tuberculous pleurisy with medical thoracoscopy: targeted pleural washing and pleural biopsy. [PDF]

J Thorac Dis
Background Due to the pauci-bacillary nature of tuberculous (TB) pleurisy, clinical diagnosis is common, but microbiological confirmation is necessary to determine drug resistance.
Hong YJ, Kim HW, Kim YS, Kim KH, Shin AY, Choi JY, Ahn JH, Kim JS, Ha JH.   +8 more
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Prospective Evaluation of Safety and Diagnostic Efficacy of Medical Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion: Experience From a Tuberculosis High-Burden Country. [PDF]

Cureus
Introduction: Pleural effusion is due to the pathological accumulation of pleural fluid in the pleural space, 25%-30% of which may remain undiagnosed despite the combination of biochemical, microbiological, and pathological tests and closed pleural ...
Behera AK, Ganga R, Kumar V, Sahu D, Kiran SS, Gupta RK, Rath AK, Goyal N.   +7 more
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New challenge in double-bore medical thoracoscopy in Fayoum University Hospital

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
Background Thoracoscopy is an invasive technique. When other, less intrusive techniques are ineffective at providing a diagnosis in the case of pleural exudates, thoracoscopy should be employed. The diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopy methods used by
Mona I Ahmed, Radwa A El Hefny, Enas S Farhat   +2 more
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Ultrasound-assisted medical thoracoscopy [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2015
Abstract Introduction Medical thoracoscopy is an important tool for the diagnosis and management of several pleural diseases. The presence of fibrous pleural adhesions may prevent medical thoracoscopy to access the pleural space properly, which may lower the diagnostic yield of the procedure and may also increase the ...
Amr Shoukri
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Non-Specific Pleuritis after Medical Thoracoscopy: A Prospective Study.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2023
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E. Seixas, P. Ferreira, Carlos Seixas, G. Teixeira, Bárbara Rodrigues   +4 more
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Medical thoracoscopy for undiagnosed pleural effusions: experience from a tertiary care hospital in north India.

Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences, 2022
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Medical thoracoscopy, also called pleuroscopy, has received renewed interest in the recent past for diagnostic as well as therapeutic uses. In this study, we describe our experience with thoracoscopy for undiagnosed pleural effusions.
V. Mootha, R. Agarwal, N. Singh, A. Aggarwal, D. Gupta, S. Jindal   +5 more
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Medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy: is it underutilized? [PDF]

European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2017
Deniz Koksal, Sevinc Sarinc Ulasli, Salih Emri   +2 more
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The Evolving Role of Medical Thoracoscopy for the Management of Malignant Pleural Effusion. [PDF]

Curr Oncol
Lovato JB, Aujayeb A, Duysinx B, Astoul P.   +3 more
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Pulmonary blastoma that was first diagnosed as dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma using medical thoracoscopy: A case report. [PDF]

Medicine (Baltimore), 2022
Kim TH, Jeon JH, Chung JH, Cho YJ.
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Utilizing medical thoracoscopy for the diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma presenting with pleural effusion: A case series. [PDF]

Respirol Case Rep
Huan NC, Ng KL, Nyanti LE, Khaw JY, Lee JH, Mohd Aminudin NH, Yunus D, Azman N, Ahmad Sharifuddin M, Ramarmuty HY, Sivaraman Kannan KK.   +10 more
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