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Background: Pleural tissue can be harvested either by means of closed biopsies, thoracoscopy or open surgical biopsies. Access to thoracoscopy and open surgical biopsies is limited in many parts of the world and closed biopsies are therefore the ...
Ahmed Sh. Mohamed +2 more
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Transpleural lung biopsy by the thorascopic route in patients with diffuse interstitial pulmonary disease [PDF]
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Bakker, W. +4 more
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Video-thoracoscopic pericardial drainage in the treatment of pericardial effusions [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To assess efficacy and safety of videothoracoscopic pericardial drainage in the treatment and diagnostic of pericardial effusion through 26 cases review.
Branco, João Nelson Rodrigues +4 more
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Advanced techniques in medical thoracoscopy [PDF]
For expert pulmonologists, advanced procedures in medical thoracoscopy are the nonroutine and more complex applications of the method. The main current indications are the treatment of infected pleural space, forceps lung biopsy and sympathectomy.In parapneumonic effusions and empyema, medical thoracoscopy is as a drainage procedure, intermediate ...
Tassi, Gf, Davies, R., Noppen, Marc
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Ultrasound-guided multilevel paravertebral block versus local anesthesia for medical thoracoscopy
Background: Local anesthetic infiltration for medical thoracoscopy has an analgesic properties for short duration. Single injection thoracic paravertebral block (PVB) provides limited analgesia.
Maha A Abo-Zeid +4 more
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Pleural biopsies are often required to establish a diagnosis in exudative pleural effusions, which remain undiagnosed after initial pleural fluid analysis.
Sreyas Sharma +6 more
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Aims: To evaluate the efficacy of medical thoracoscopy-assisted argon plasma coagulation in association with autologous blood pleurodesis in spontaneous pneumothorax.
Lei Zhang +3 more
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A review on delayed presentation of diaphragmatic rupture [PDF]
Diaphragmatic rupture is a life-threatening condition. Diaphragmatic injuries are quite uncommon and often result from either blunt or penetrating trauma.
Farhan Rashid +3 more
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Safety and complications of medical thoracoscopy in the management of pleural diseases
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 +9 more
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Management of malignant pleural mesothelioma: a French multicenter retrospective study (GFPC 0802 study) [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease with poor prognosis in spite of significant improvement in survival, due to new chemotherapy regimens.
A. Dixmier +16 more
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