Thoracic ultrasound prior to medical thoracoscopy improves pleural access and predicts fibrous septation

Respirology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 804-808

  Medford, Andrew R L ^a   Agrawal, Sanjay ^a   Bennett, Jonathan A ^a   Free, Catherine M ^a   Entwisle, James J ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lung cancer; medical thoracoscopy; pleura; thoracic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL THORACOSCOPY; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURODESIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; THORACIC ULTRASOUND; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLEURAL CAVITY; PLEURAL DISEASES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX, ARTIFICIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC WALL; THORACOSCOPY; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953868514     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01768.x     Document Type: Article

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