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Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials [PDF]
, 2004 <b>Objectives</b> To determine if video assisted thoracic surgery is associated with better clinical outcomes than thoracotomy for three common procedures: surgery for pneumothorax, minor resections, and lobectomy.
Lewsey, J. +3 more
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Ultrasound-guided forceps for pleural biopsy [PDF]
, 2009 PurposeUltrasound guided forceps for pleural biopsy is a technique that can cover the diagnostic yield gap between the needle biopsy of the pleura and thoracoscopy or thoracotomy. This technique enables operator to take biopsy from multiple pleural sites.
Agmy, Gamal +3 more
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International Journal of Cancer, 2020 Complete surgical resection of pulmonary metastatic disease in patients with osteosarcoma is crucial to long‐term survival. Open thoracotomy allows palpation of nodules not identified on imaging but the impact on survival is unknown.
Timothy B. Lautz +26 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive repair used to treat pectus excavatum. A bilateral thoracoscopy-assisted approach has been reported as a safe method for Nuss repair.
Ponomar'ov Lo +5 more
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OPTIMIZATION OF INDICATIONS FOR THORACOSCOPY IN CHEST TRAUMA
Наука и инновации в медицине, 2017 Background. The terms for application of video-assisted endosurgical interventions appear rather often in the surgery of chest trauma. There is a certain need for clear selection and differentiation of indications and contraindications for performing ...
EA A Korymasov, AS Benyan
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Chest pain caused by multiple exostoses of the ribs: A case report and a review of literature [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to report an exceptional case of multiple internal exostoses of the ribs in a young patient affected by multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE) coming to our observation for chest pain as the only symptom of an intra-thoracic ...
Calderaro, Cosma +8 more
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Early Contrast Enhancement: a novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging biomarker of pleural malignancy [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction: Pleural Malignancy (PM) is often occult on subjective radiological assessment. We sought to define a novel, semi-objective Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) biomarker of PM, targeted to increased tumour microvessel density (MVD) and ...
Alexander, Laura +10 more
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A&A practice, 2020 We performed the midpoint transverse process to pleura (MTP) block in a patient with a recurrent pleural effusion requiring medical thoracoscopy, drainage of pleural effusion, talc poudrage, and placement of tunneled pleural catheter under sedation while
A. Pedoto +4 more
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The diagnostic performance of routinely acquired and reported computed tomography imaging in patients presenting with suspected pleural malignancy [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) provides essential cross-sectional imaging data in patients with suspected pleural malignancy (PM). The performance of CT in routine practice may be lower than in previously reported research. We
Alexander, Laura +4 more
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Outcomes and complications of medical thoracoscopy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion
The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2016 Background Thoracoscopy has long been established as the procedure of choice for various chest diseases, among which is undiagnosed pleural effusions.
Mona M. Ahmed +3 more
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