. 2016; 18(3): 139-142 | DOI: 10.5152/ejp.2016.54227 | |||
Diagnostic Value and Safety of Medical Thoracoscopy in the Management of Exudative Pleural EffusionMehmet Akif Özgül1, Erdoğan Çetinkaya1, Elif Tanrıverdi1, Mustafa Çörtük2, Murat Acat2, Şule Gül1, Ekrem Cengiz Seyhan3, Derya Özden Omaygenç4, Hasan Akın5, Kenan Abbaslı1, Hilal Onaran61Clinic of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey2Department of Chest Diseases, Karabük University School of Medicine, Karabük, Turkey 3Department of Chest Disease, Medipol Universty School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey 4Clinic of Anesthesiology, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 5Clinic of Thoracic Surgery, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 6Clinic of Chest Disease, Merzifon Kara Mustafa Paşa State Hospital, Amasya, Turkey Objective: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that is performed by experienced pulmonologists under local anesthesia and conscious intravenous sedation. It allows direct observation and evaluation of the pleural space. Our aim is to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy and safety of this procedure while presenting our results of medical thoracoscopy performed by rigid thoracoscopy in our clinic. Mehmet Akif Özgül, Erdoğan Çetinkaya, Elif Tanrıverdi, Mustafa Çörtük, Murat Acat, Şule Gül, Ekrem Cengiz Seyhan, Derya Özden Omaygenç, Hasan Akın, Kenan Abbaslı, Hilal Onaran. Diagnostic Value and Safety of Medical Thoracoscopy in the Management of Exudative Pleural Effusion. . 2016; 18(3): 139-142 Sorumlu Yazar: Mehmet Akif Özgül, Türkiye |
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