The usefulness of full-thickness biopsy during semi-rigid pleuroscopy for differentiating between malignant pleural mesothelioma and non-specific pleurisy
Full-thickness biopsy during semi-rigid pleuroscopy provides high diagnostic accuracy and safety for differentiating malignant pleural mesothelioma from non-specific pleurisy, while yielding high-quality pleural tissue specimens.
Authors
- Kazuhiro Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6460-8312)
- Yuji Matsumoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0646-858X)
- Yu Mikami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-2958)
- Tetsuya Watanabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3979-527X)
- Tomoya Kawaguchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7600-4847)
- Kanako Sato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4863-0004)
- Takahiro Ueda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4214-1325)
- Hiroaki Nagamine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0620-4957)
- Kazuhisa Asai
- Misako Nishimura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9553-2576)
- Toshiyuki Nakai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3223-5632)
- Atsushi Miyamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6847-9925)
- Yoshiya Matsumoto
- Sayaka Tanaka
Institutions
- Osaka City University (JP)
- Osaka City University Hospital (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Pulmonary Medicine
- Published
- 2025-12-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-025-03982-6
- Primary Topic
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00