Utility of medical thoracoscopy in patients with undiagnosed pleural effusion in chest department in beni-suef university

Abstract Introduction Pleural diseases involve the parietal and visceral pleura and may be of either inflammatory or malignant origin, with pleural effusions. Medical thoracoscopy (MT) is a procedure involving internal examination and biopsy of masses within the pleural and thoracic cavity. It is a...

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Main Authors: Abeer S. E. Mohamed, Neveen M. Amin, Mahmoud El-Batanouny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.4103/ejb.ejb_87_16