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Thoracoscopy for Physicians

Thoracoscopy for Physicians

Author: Diana Buchanan
Ed Neville
Publishing date: 2004
Thoracoscopy and biopsy have developed as indispensable tools to diagnose pleural, and sometimes lung, disease when simple clinical and laboratory methods of examination have failed to yield a diagnosis. Thoracoscopy is most often undertaken by surgeons, but may also be performed by trained physicians. It takes place in an endoscopy or operating room using simple sedation, local anaesthesia and non-disposable equipment, and is a useful, less invasive alternative to thoracotomy. Direct visualisation of the pleura with the thoracoscope achieves a diagnosis in approximately 95% of patients with tuberculosis or malignancy because biopsies are taken from areas seen to be macroscopically abnormal. Despite these advantages, the technique has until recently been vastly
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