Pleural cryobiopsy during local anaesthetic thoracoscopy in dry pleural dissemination

• 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
• Subjects: Dry pleural dissemination; flex‐rigid thoracoscope; lung cancer; pleural cryobiopsy; pleural diseases
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.503
• ISSN: 2051-3380

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 pleural injury. We present a diagnosed case of dry pleural dissemination safely sampled using cryobiopsy using flex‐rigid thoracoscope under local anaesthesia.