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Ultrasound-Guided Abrams Pleural Biopsy vs CT-Guided Tru-Cut Pleural Biopsy in Malignant Pleural Disease, a 3-Year Follow-up Study. [PDF]

, 2016
PURPOSE: Conventional Abrams biopsy shows low sensitivity in suspected malignant pleural disease. There are limited data on the improvement in sensitivity by adding in image guidance. This retrospective study compares the diagnostic sensitivity of Abrams
Ahmed, Irfan, Ahmed, Liju, Dhileepan, Vignesh, Jayaram, Deepak, Rao, Deepak, Sivakumar, Parthipan   +5 more
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Role of Medical Thoracoscopy in the Management of Multiloculated Empyema [PDF]

C23. PLEURAL DISEASE, CF, AND OTHER MAGICAL CREATURES, 2018
The treatment of early pleural empyema depends on the treatment of ongoing infection by antimicrobial therapy along with thoracocentesis. In complicated empyema this treatment does not work and lung will not expand until removal of adhesions. The objective of the current study is to analyze the experience of management of multiloculated, exudative and ...
K.K. Sumalani, A. Asghar, N.A. Rizvi
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Medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy: step by step [PDF]

Breathe, 2011
SummaryMedical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy is considered to be one of the main areas of interventional pulmonology and should be included in the training programme of the chest physician. As with all technical procedures, there is a learning curve before full competence in medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy is achieved.
Loddenkemper, R., Lee, P., Noppen, M., Mathur, P.N.   +3 more
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Effect of Opioids vs NSAIDs and Larger vs Smaller Chest Tube Size on Pain Control and Pleurodesis Efficacy Among Patients With Malignant Pleural Effusion: The TIME1 Randomized Clinical Trial [PDF]

, 2015
IMPORTANCE For treatment of malignant pleural effusion, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are avoided because they may reduce pleurodesis efficacy.
Ali, N, Bentley, A, Chapman, M, Chauhan, A, Corcoran, JP, Davies, HE, Davies, RJO, Dobson, M, Dowson, L, Hallifax, R, Hedley, EL, Hettiarachchi, G, Lee, YCG, Maskell, NA, McFadyen, BM, Miles, J, Miller, RF, Mukherjee, D, Nunn, AJ, Pepperell, J, Psallidas, I, Rahman, NM, Rehal, S, Russell, N, Ryan, CF, Saba, T, Samuel, J, Seaton, D, Shaw, RA, Tang, A, West, A, Wrightson, JM, Yoneda, KY   +32 more
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Tumor type M2-pyruvate-kinase levels in pleural fluid versus plasma in cancer patients: a further tool to define the need for invasive procedures [PDF]

, 2008
Pleural effusion is a common diagnostic problem and a challenge to the thoracic surgeon. The analysis of serum and body fluids for tumor markers is an established diagnostic procedure.
Cortese, C, Cristino, B, De Massimi, A, Elia, S, Guggino, G, Massoud, R, Zenobi, R   +6 more
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The role for medical thoracoscopy in pneumothorax.

Journal of thoracic disease, 2014
Pneumothorax is a life threatening situation that requires fast treatment. There are two major classifications: Primary and Secondary. Staging of pneumothorax is also very important for treatment. Treatment of pneumont can be performed either from thoracic surgeons, or pulmonary physicians.
Robert Browning, J. Francis Turner Jr, Paul Zarogoulidis, Theodoros Karaiskos, Georgios Dryllis, Ioannis Kioumis, Georgia Pitsiou, Theodora Tsiouda, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Athanasios Madesis, Scott Parrish, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis, Ioanna Kougioumtzi   +13 more
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Anatomic Thoracoscopic Repair of Esophageal Atresia [PDF]

, 2017
Background: The thoracoscopic approach to repair esophageal atresia (EA) with tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) provides excellent view, allowing the most skillful surgeons to spare the azygos vein by performing the esophageal anastomosis over (on the ...
Al Tokhais, Evans, Holcomb, Ladd, Lobe, Parolini, Patkowski, Pierro, Rothenberg, Rothenberg, Rothenberg, Sharma, Spitz, Upadhyaya   +13 more
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Safety and complications of diagnostic medical thoracoscopy: A 3-year experience of a single centre [PDF]

, 2022
Background: Medical thoracoscopy (MT) is one of the oldest invasive interventional techniques in the recent history of respiratory medicine. Its role in clinical practice was emphasized in the last few years, and it almost replaced the traditional closed
Aboseif, Ahmed Ibrahim, Elnaby, Houssam Eldin Hassanin Abd   +1 more
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Role of medical thoracoscopy in the management of parapneumonic effusion and empyema thoracic [PDF]

, 2020
Background: The treatment modality use in early pleural empyema mainly depends on the antimicrobial therapy along with thoracocentesis. In case of complicated empyema this modality does not work and lung not fully expand, until removal of adhesions.
A., Shinu, Ansari, Abdul Qayyum, Bansiwal, Babulal, Saxena, Anil, Sharma, Hemant Kumar   +4 more
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Esophageal Cancer Initially Thought to be Accompanied by a Solitary Metastasis to an Intrathoracic Paraaortic Lymph Node [PDF]

, 2012
Esophageal cancers usually exhibit lymph-node metastases. Although a solitary lymph-node metastasis is occasionally found, the involvement of an intrathoracic paraaortic node is rare.
Akase, Takayoshi, Hase, Kazuo, Horio, Takuya, Maehara, Tadaaki, Ogata, Sho, Takahata, Risa, Tsujimoto, Hironori, Yaguchi, Yoshihisa   +7 more
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