Advances in pleuroscopy

Objectives To describe the technique of pleuroscopy, its clinical uses such as diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion, treatment of pleural infection, treatment of pneumothorax, and diagnosis and pleurodesis of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Also to describe the newer techniques developed such as...

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Published inThe clinical respiratory journal Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 839 - 847
Main Authors Anevlavis, Stavros, Froudarakis, Marios E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.03.2018
Subjects
advanced techniques
Humans
Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis
Lung Neoplasms - metabolism
Lung Neoplasms - therapy
malignant pleural mesothelioma
medical thoracoscopy
Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma - diagnosis
Mesothelioma - metabolism
Mesothelioma - therapy
Mesothelioma, Malignant
Narrow Band Imaging - methods
Optical Imaging - methods
Pleural Diseases - diagnostic imaging
Pleural Diseases - microbiology
Pleural Diseases - pathology
Pleural Diseases - therapy
Pleural Effusion - diagnostic imaging
Pleural Effusion - therapy
pleurodesis
Pleurodesis - methods
pleuroscopy
pneumothorax
Pneumothorax - diagnostic imaging
Pneumothorax - therapy
Predictive Value of Tests
Thoracoscopy - instrumentation
Thoracoscopy - methods
malignant pleural mesothelioma
medical thoracoscopy
pleuroscopy
advanced techniques
pleurodesis
pneumothorax
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Summary:Objectives To describe the technique of pleuroscopy, its clinical uses such as diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion, treatment of pleural infection, treatment of pneumothorax, and diagnosis and pleurodesis of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Also to describe the newer techniques developed such as minothoracoscopy, semirigid thoracoscopy, narrow band imaging pleuroscopy, infrared pleuroscopy, autofluorescence pleuroscopy. Data source We searched the pubmed the last decade for publications with the key words pleuroscopy, medical thoracoscopy, pneumothorax and pleuroscopy, malignant pleural mesothelioma, minothoracoscopy, semirigid thoracoscopy, autofluorescence pleuroscopy. Conclusion Medical thoracoscopy is the method of choice for investigation of the undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions. Newer techniques, such as narrow band imaging thoracoscopy, infrared thoracoscopy, autofluorescence thoracoscopy are offering a promising future for medical thoracoscopy.
Bibliography:The authors contributed equally in searching the bibliography and writing the review.
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ISSN:1752-6981
1752-699X
DOI:10.1111/crj.12597