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Pleural staging using local anesthetic thoracoscopy in dry pleural dissemination and minimal pleural effusion

BACKGROUND: Dry pleural dissemination (DPD) and minimal (<10 mm thick) pleural effusion (PE) may be discovered intraoperatively as unexpected metastases. A definitive diagnostic procedure such as pleural biopsy is rarely attempted in such patients preoperatively. We retrospectively investigated t...

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Autores principales: Imabayashi, Tatsuya, Matsumoto, Yuji, Tanaka, Midori, Nakai, Toshiyuki, Tsuchida, Takaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33629523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.13894