Medical video assisted thoracoscopy – minimally invasive diagnostic tool for diagnosis of undiagnosed pleural effusion
Background: The diagnosis of pleural diseases is one of the frequent clinical problems encountered in pulmonary medicine. A variety of diagnostic tests are available for evaluating pleural effusions. It often depends much more on the revealing results of pleural fluid cytology and histopathological...
Main Authors: | Safwat Ali M. Eldaboosy, Mousa El-shamly, Khalid M. Halima, Ahmad T. Shaarawy, Ismail Alwakil, Mohammad Osama |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
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Series: | Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763813000216 |
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