Pleural tuberculosis: medical thoracoscopy greatly increases the diagnostic accuracy
Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of a standardised work-up in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (TB) that included fibreoptic bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy. A consecutive series of 52 pleural TB patients observed during the period 2001–2015 was evaluated retrospectively. 20 fem...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2018-01-01
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| Series: | ERJ Open Research |
| Online Access: | http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/1/00046-2017.full |