Pleural cryobiopsy during local anaesthetic thoracoscopy in dry pleural dissemination

A minimally invasive thoracic intervention, such as local anaesthetic thoracoscopy, can be used to collect the samples in malignant pleural lesions. But cancerous pleurisy without pleural effusion, called dry pleural dissemination, is considered difficult to perform thoracoscopy from concerns about...

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Main Authors: Ayn Marie Lao, Yuji Matsumoto, Midori Tanaka, Takafumi Matsunaga, Shinji Sasada, Takaaki Tsuchida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Respirology Case Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.503