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Ultrasound guided needle pleural biopsy in patients with undiagnosed pleural effusion [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014
Background: Cases of pleural effusion represent a great challenge for pulmonologists and ultrasound is considered as an important tool for diagnosis of these cases.
Hoda M. Bahr, Mohamed H. El-Shafey, Mohamed S. Hantera, Gehan H. Abo-El magd, Ahmed H. El-Batsh   +4 more
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Role of Rigid Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion: A Prospective Study

Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu, 2019
Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive, safe, and cost-effective procedure that allows complete visualization of pleural space, enabling diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as pleural biopsy and talc insufflations.
A Manimaran, K Anbananthan, A Nadhiya, R Ponnar   +3 more
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The role of pleuroscopy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion

Lung India, 2012
To find the diagnostic yield of a pleuroscopic pleural biopsy and to find the complication rates.Institutional based prospective study.Sixty-eight consecutive patients who had undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion were recruited for pleuroscopy from September 2007 to August 2010.A total of 68 patients (55 males and 13 females; mean age 49 years ...
V G Prabhu, R Narasimhan
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Role of pleural biopsy in patients of undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion [PDF]

International Journal of Medical Research and Review, 2020
Introduction: Sometimes etiological diagnosis of pleural fluid is not possible by cytology, biochemical and microbiological examinations and labeled as undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion. Our aim of this study to make an etiological diagnosis in such undiagnosed exudative cases with pleural biopsy.
Sanwalka, Nidhi, Kumar, Ramesh, Sanwalka, Madhvi   +2 more
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Thoracoscopic evaluation of 129 cases having undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions

Lung India, 2016
Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure used in diagnostic and therapeutic applications for pleural diseases. In this study, we describe our experience in the outcome and analysis of thoracoscopy in undiagnosed pleural effusion
Chetan Basavaraj Patil, Ramakant Dixit, Rakesh Gupta, Neeraj Gupta, Varna Indushekar   +4 more
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Diagnostic yield of thoracoscopic pleural biopsy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion and comparative analysis of pleural fluid adenosine deaminase levels

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
Undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion remains a frequent clinical challenge, particularly in high-burden settings where tuberculosis and malignancy predominate.
Deepak Sharma, Sachin Kumar, Ved Prakash, Mohammad Arif, Anurag Tripathi, Shubhra Srivastava, Hemant Kumar, Mrityunjaya Singh, Harshita Mishra   +8 more
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Medical thoracoscopy in evaluation of undiagnosed pleural effusion [PDF]

International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2019
Background: Medical thoracoscopy or pleuroscopy, in recent past has received lot of interest for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes. In the evaluation of undiagnosed pleural effusion, it has become a key diagnostic modality as it is a cost effective and safe procedure.
Khurshid Ahmad Dar, Sheikh Tariq Sultan, Ahmed Jamal Jamil, Nazia Mehfooz, Naveed Nazir Shah, Syed Suraiya Farooq, Bikram Singh Datta, Firdous Manzoor Bhat, Lateef Ahmad Wani, Khalid Feroz Bhat   +9 more
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Derrame pleural de origem indeterminada Undiagnosed pleural effusion

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2006
Apesar do progresso nos métodos diagnósticos, cerca de 20% dos derrames pleurais podem permanecer sem diagnóstico etiológico definido após os exames convencionais. Para tentar determinar a origem destes derrames, métodos não convencionais e procedimentos
Eduardo Genofre, Antonio Monteiro da Silva Chibante, Alex Gonçalves Macedo   +2 more
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Role of percutaneous closed needle pleural biopsy among patients of undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion

Lung India, 2011
Background: Sometimes etiological diagnosis of pleural effusion is difficult despite cytological, biochemical and microbiological tests and labeled as undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions.
H S Hira, Rajiv Ranjan
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SLE Presenting With Unilateral Loculated Pleural Effusion in a Young Hypertensive Female: A Rare Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT SLE can rarely present with unilateral pleural effusion or hypertension. A 28‐year‐old woman with loculated exudative pleural effusion was diagnosed with SLE and lupus nephritis fulfilling EULAR/ACR criteria, treated with pigtail drainage, corticosteroids, and hydroxychloroquine, with good recovery.
Tripathi A, Sah U, Shah S, Singh S, Nishad SR.   +4 more
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