Medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that allows access to the pleural space using a combination of viewing and working instruments. It ...

For the diagnosis of people with pleural effusion, an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) in diagnostic accuracy in some cases, a small randomized ...

Thoracoscopy is a novel technique which uses a video camera system to operate inside the chest cavity for a wide variety of lung/chest conditions. The use of camera systems reduces the requirement for ...

MUSCAT: The Royal Hospital has launched a medical thoracoscopy service as an advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedure to ...

AIIMS-Patna doctors performed their first medical thoracoscopy procedure on Saturday, a week after the hospital received the equipment required for the test. Pulmonary medicine department doctors of ...

Muscat: Royal Hospital recently launched a medical thoracoscopy service—an advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedure that has been applied ...

Dr Vikrant Deshmukh, a pulmonologist by chance discovered a very good use of a smart phone as a source of light in conducting his bronchoscopic procedures. Representative image NAGPUR: Dr Vikrant ...

It can be surprising to learn that lung cancer can develop in people who have never smoked. In fact, up to 20% of lung cancers occur in people without a history of smoking. While smoking remains the ...