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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We report a case of a patient with right pleural effusion who, during video-assisted thoracoscopy for biopsy and diagnosis, developed a sudden rise in end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) after a small ...

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 ...