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Medical thoracoscopy for tuberculous pleurisy: A retrospective analysis of 575 cases
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2019 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this retrospective study was to assess the efficacy of medical thoracoscopy in diagnosing of tuberculous pleurisy and characterize tuberculous pleurisy with medical thoracoscopy.
Tingting Zhao +5 more
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Journal of Surgical Oncology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neoplastic pleural effusion is one in which malignant neoplastic cells are detected in the pleural fluid or in the parietal pleura. When secondary, it confirms disseminated neoplastic disease and suggests a reduced life expectancy and low quality of life.
Erlon de Avila Carvalho +9 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014 Background: Recurrent and persistent pleural exudates are common in clinical practice, and in a large number of patients, thoracocentesis and blind pleural biopsy procedures do not provide a definitive diagnosis.
Laila A. Helala +3 more
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A Rare Giant Pleural Thymoma in Posterior Mediastinum. [PDF]
, 2012 Thymoma is an epithelial neoplasm of the thymus, which commonly lies in the anterior mediastinum. Unusually, thymomas can also be found in other locations. Surgical excision, when feasible, appears to provide good results. We encountered a rare case of a
Kalloli, M +3 more
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Role of medical Thoracoscopy in the Management of Multiloculated Empyema
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2018 BackgroundThe 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 ...
K. Sumalani, N. Rizvi, A. Asghar
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Horseshoe Lung: A Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature
Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Horseshoe lung is a rare congenital malformation in which the lungs are fused by a parenchymal isthmus. The current literature is very limited regarding cases of prenatal diagnosis and their outcome. Method We retrospectively examined three cases of fetuses with horseshoe lung diagnosed antenatally in our center from 2015 to 2024 ...
Benjamin Birene +6 more
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Subxiphoid video-thoracoscopy [PDF]
ASVIDE, 2018 Surgical procedures of pleural cavity are crucial to complete the diagnoses or planning treatment of pleural effusions with an unknown aetiology. Traditionally, the transthoracic approach has been the most used procedure to study the pleural cavity. The subxiphoid video-thoracoscopy is becoming an alternative to the transthoracic approach.
Ramón Rami-Porta +5 more
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BMC Pulmonary MedicineBackground Pleural disease is a common clinical condition, and some patients present with a small amount of pleural effusion or no pleural effusion. It is difficult to diagnose such patients in clinical practice. Medical thoracoscopy is the gold standard
Linhui Yang +4 more
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The influence of the diagnostic technique on the histopathological diagnosis in malignant mesothelioma [PDF]
, 1991 In the histopathology of malignant mesotheliomas three different types (epithelial, connective tissue and mixed type) are distinguished. Some authors believe all tumours to be of mixed type, but consider that due to inadequate sampling or small biopsies ...
Gelder, T. (Teun) van +4 more
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World Journal of Surgery, Volume 49, Issue 6, Page 1497-1507, June 2025.Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a valuable tool in pediatric surgical planning, offering detailed anatomical spatial orientation and three‐dimensional (3D) navigation. ABSTRACT Purpose Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a valuable tool in surgical planning, offering detailed anatomical spatial orientation and three‐dimensional (3D) navigation ...
Gloria Pelizzo +19 more
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