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Assessment and review of treatment for secondary spontaneous pneumothorax using medical thoracoscopy-assisted argon plasma coagulation in association with autologous blood pleurodesis

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2021
Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of medical thoracoscopy-assisted argon plasma coagulation in association with autologous blood pleurodesis in spontaneous pneumothorax.
Lei Zhang, Tian Xie, Yihui Fu, Haihong Wu   +3 more
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Comparative Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Multi‐Segment Thoracolumbar Tuberculosis Treated Through the Posterior “Detour Method” Versus the Combined Anterior–Posterior Approach: A Technique Note and Preliminary Retrospective Study

Orthopaedic Surgery, EarlyView.
A simple schematic diagram; the red dashed arrow indicates the direction of surgical decompression. ABSTRACT Objective With the progress of spinal tuberculosis treatment theory and surgical tools, how to further improve the surgical efficacy, reduce surgical trauma, and increase safety in multi‐segmental spinal tuberculosis is still controversial ...
Dian Zhong, Wei Zeng, Guosheng Zhao, Yu Du, Yang Wang, Zhenyong Ke   +5 more
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Safety and complications of medical thoracoscopy in the management of pleural diseases

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2019
Background Medical thoracoscopy is considered an overall safe procedure, whereas numbers of studies focus on complications of diagnostic thoracoscopy and talc poudrage pleurodesis.
Yun-Yan Wan, Cong-Cong Zhai, Xin-Shan Lin, Zhou-Hong Yao, Qing-Hua Liu, Ling Zhu, De-Zhi Li, Xi-Li Li, Ning Wang, Dian-Jie Lin   +9 more
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Comparison between a laparoscopic articulating needle driver with standard laparoscopic instrumentation for total laparoscopic gastropexy in dogs

Veterinary Surgery, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To compare the utility of a mechanical laparoscopic articulating needle driver (ALI) to standard laparoscopic instrumentation (SLI) during the creation of a total laparoscopic gastropexy (TLG) in dogs. Study design Prospective clinical trial. Animals A total of 17 client owned dogs.
Erin A. Gibson, William T. N. Culp, Ingrid M. Balsa, Michele Steffey, Philipp Mayhew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of baseline screening results and management with subsequent adherence in the Korean national lung cancer screening program

Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 300, Issue 1, Page 51-63, July 2026.
Abstract Background Adherence to subsequent lung cancer screening (LCS) is essential but not well characterized in biennial national programs. Objectives To assess whether baseline LCS results and their management are associated with subsequent screening adherence and clinical outcomes.
Hyungjin Kim, Eunseo Jo, Jinseob Kim, Soonho Yoon, Florian J. Fintelmann, Gerard A. Silvestri, Jin Mo Goo   +6 more
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A Three‐Step Diagnostic Strategy for Malignant Pleural Effusions

Cancer Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT New diagnostic tools, such as high fluorescence cells (HFc) and tumor markers (TMs), have emerged in the quest to accurately diagnose malignant pleural effusion (MPE). This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of the HFc and TMs combination.
Elisa Nuez‐Zaragoza, Vicente Aguadero, Indira Bhambi‐Blanco, Mònica Vidal‐Pla, Isabel Aparicio‐Calvente, M. Rosa Escoda‐Giralt, Joana Gallardo‐Campos, Joan Carles Ferreres, Luis Frisancho, Laia Mas‐Maresma, Patricia Aguilera‐Fernández, Sonia Marco‐Continente, Marina Sierra‐Boada, Pablo Andreu‐Cobo, Miquel Gallego, Francesca Canalias, Javier Hernando‐Redondo, Jaume Trapé   +17 more
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Massive pulmonary embolism led to cardiac arrest two days after thoracoscopy in a young male with pleural tuberculosis

Respirology Case Reports, 2023
TB itself is considered an independent risk factor for VTE; however, developing pulmonary embolism after medical thoracoscopy is extremely rare. Herein, we describe a 30‐year‐old previously healthy male with pleural tuberculosis developed a massive ...
Wael Kanjo, Shahem Abbarh, Amina Bougaila, Nagham Sadik, Mhd Baraa Habib   +4 more
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LCDLNet: Attention Mechanism‐Based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Cancer Diagnosis from Computed Tomography (CT) Images

Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2026.
LCDLNet, a deep learning architecture, achieved 99.81% accuracy and an AUC of 0.998 for lung cancer diagnosis. This model effectively integrates multiscale features from a Custom CNN, DenseNet121, and a Transformer, leveraging Squeeze‐and‐Excitation (SE) blocks and Spatial Attention to capture complex local and global context, ensuring robust ...
Farjana Akter Chumki, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, Sabrina Alam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role of thoracoscopic pleural lavage and brush in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2015
Background: The accurate diagnosis of pleural effusion remains a challenging problem even after thoracentesis and closed pleural biopsy. Medical thoracoscopy has been established to have a greater diagnostic yield in the diagnosis of exudative pleural ...
Mohamed A. Zamzam, Ahmed A. Khames, Samy S. El-Dahdouh, Hala S. El-Rebey, Hanaa A. Eid   +4 more
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Paragonimiasis Following Ingestion of Frozen Freshwater Crab: Two Case Reports

Respirology Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2026.
Paragonimiasis is a zoonotic trematode infection acquired through ingestion of freshwater crustaceans or raw game meat. Here, we report two patients (a couple) who developed paragonimiasis after consuming previously frozen freshwater crabs together at the same restaurant in Tokyo.
Asuka Yamamura, Muneyuki Sekiya, Yusuke Usui, Susumu Sakamoto, Keiya Watanabe, Kohshi Fukuda, Yasuko Kurose, Naobumi Tochigi, Mio Kokubo, Haruhiko Maruyama, Kazuma Kishi   +10 more
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