Patel Dharmesh
City Clinic and Bhailal Amin General Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Lung India. 2015 Nov-Dec;32(6):638-40. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.168114.
In the modern management of pleural diseases, thoracoscopy has a clear advantage over closed pleural biopsy. By way of its high yield, both in malignant pleural disease and pleural Tuberculosis - the two commonest cause of undiagnosed pleural effusion, thoracoscopy has the added advantage of faster symptom relief and offering effective pleurodesis. This makes it an attractive diagnostic and therapeutic procedure of choice and features high in the algorithms of many international guidelines on the approach to pleural diseases.
在胸膜疾病的现代管理中，胸腔镜检查相对于闭式胸膜活检具有明显优势。由于其在恶性胸膜疾病和胸膜结核（未确诊胸腔积液的两个最常见原因）中具有较高的诊断率，胸腔镜检查还具有能更快缓解症状并提供有效的胸膜固定术的优势。这使其成为一种有吸引力的诊断和治疗选择方法，在许多关于胸膜疾病诊治方法的国际指南中都占据重要地位。
