Diagnostic Utility of Pleural Fluid Cell Block versus Pleural Biopsy Collected by Flex-Rigid Pleuroscopy for Malignant Pleural Disease: A Single Center Retrospective Analysis

BACKGROUND: Some trials recently demonstrated the benefit of targeted treatment for malignant disease; therefore, adequate tissues are needed to detect the targeted gene. Pleural biopsy using flex-rigid pleuroscopy and pleural effusion cell block analysis are both useful for diagnosis of malignancy...

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Autores principales: Miyoshi, Shion, Sasada, Shinji, Izumo, Takehiro, Matsumoto, Yuji, Tsuchida, Takaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27880851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167186

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