Diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy for undiagnosed pleural effusions
| العنوان: | Diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy for undiagnosed pleural effusions |
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| المؤلفون: | Hua Wu, Shu‑Mei Yang, Yong‑Qing Zhang, Jun Wang, Rui‑Lin Chen |
| المصدر: | Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine |
| بيانات النشر: | Spandidos Publications, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Tuberculosis, diagnosis, Pleural effusion, Examination method, Metastasis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, pleural effusion, Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous), medicine, Thoracoscopy, 030212 general & internal medicine, Lung cancer, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Cancer, Retrospective cohort study, Articles, General Medicine, medicine.disease, medical thoracoscopy, 030228 respiratory system, Radiology, business |
| الوصف: | To investigate the diagnostic value of medical thoracoscopy for the diagnosis of undiagnosed pleural effusions, a retrospective study was performed on the clinical data of 86 patients with undiagnosed pleural effusions who had medical thoracoscopy at Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital (Xi'an, China) between May 2012 and November 2013. Of the 86 patients, 79 cases of pleural effusions were confirmed by medical thoracoscopic biopsy with a diagnosis rate of 91.9%. In these 79 confirmed patients, 37 had pleura cancer metastasis (43.0%) and 20 had tuberculous pleuritis (23.3%). The most common type of malignant tumor was lung cancer, accounting for 86.5% of the patients with pleural metastasis. Tuberculosis was often observed in the 16–35 years of age patient group, while malignant tumors were typically detected in the 36–65 year and 65 years and above patient groups. Notably, the overall diagnosis distribution had little connection with sex or smoking-history. Neither mortality nor major complications were observed in patients who received medical thoracoscopy examination. In conclusion, medical thoracoscopy is a safe and effective examination method and has an important diagnostic value for unidentified pleural effusion in patients. |
| تدمد: | 1792-1015 1792-0981 |
| DOI: | 10.3892/etm.2018.6742 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::45e6e0406f83a2bfcd11cab6bfcab200 https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6742 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....45e6e0406f83a2bfcd11cab6bfcab200 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17921015 17920981 |
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| DOI: | 10.3892/etm.2018.6742 |