Medical thoracoscopy: Survey of current practice—How successful are medical thoracoscopists at predicting malignancy?

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• 作者：Robert J. Hallifax ; John P. Corcoran ; Ioannis Psallidas and Najib M. Rahman
• 刊名：Respirology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：21
• 期：5
• 页码：958-960
• 全文大小：154K
• ISSN：1440-1843

文摘

Use of medical thoracoscopy by respiratory physicians is increasing. This survey of experienced thoracoscopists was conducted to establish current practice of medical thoracoscopy and physicians' opinion of theoretical cases using 20 video clips. Results suggest an increasing trend towards day-case thoracoscopy but that caution is required when making diagnosis on macroscopic appearance: malignant and benign disease could only be differentiated in 59% of cases, and trapped lung is difficult to predict at thoracoscopy.