Five-year Experience of Using Single Port Rigid Thoracoscopy in Patients of Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion at Tertiary Center in North India
Rigid medical thoracoscopy has a very high diagnostic yield with few complications in the diagnosis of exudative pleural effusion. Therefore, tissue-based biopsy with thoracoscopy can be easily performed to make a correct diagnosis with huge future implication in such patients.
Authors
- Chanchal Rana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1783-7689)
- Ved Prakash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0990-3447)
- Deepak Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5497-0999)
- Mohammad Taufiqul Arif (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-3235)
- Shubhra Srivastava
- Hemant Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-5079)
- Mrityunjaya Singh
- Sachin Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-6770)
- Anurag Tripathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2289-2500)
- Saumya Shukla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-3266)
Institutions
- King George's Medical University (IN)
- Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of African Medicine
- Published
- 2025-06-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_70_25
- Primary Topic
- Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00