Intra-patient comparison of parietal pleural biopsies by rigid forceps, flexible forceps and cryoprobe obtained during medical thoracoscopy: a prospective series of 80 cases with pleural effusion

BACKGROUND: There is only few data available on the use of cryotechnique during medical thoracoscopy. METHODS: Medical thoracoscopy was performed in consecutive patients with pleural effusion. Prospectively, biopsies were taken by rigid forceps, flexible forceps and cryoprobe. Specimen size, depth a...

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Autores principales: Wurps, H., Schönfeld, N., Bauer, T. T., Bock, M., Duve, C., Sauer, R., Mairinger, T., Griff, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27387441
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-016-0258-5

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