Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
To Evaluate The Additional Diagnositic Role Of Thoracoscopic Pleural Lavage And Brush In Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion
Dr. Ravi Kant Pandey, 2Dr. Ved Prakash, 3Dr. Sachin Kumar, 4Dr .Shubham Tiwari, 5Dr. Smiriti Khari, 6 Dr. Deepak Sharma, 7Dr .Anurag Tripathi
JCDR. 2023: 2444-2448
Abstract
Introduction : Even after thoracentesis and closed pleural biopsies, properly diagnosing pleural effusion is still a challenging task. It has been demonstrated that medical thoracoscopy has a higher diagnostic yield for diagnosing exudative pleural effusion. Pleural specimens could be obtained via medical thoracoscopy using forceps biopsy, pleural brush, and lavage.
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