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vol. 8 no. 2 144-155
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- Published online December 1, 2011.
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- 1German Central Committee against Tuberculosis (DZK), Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, Berlin, Germany
- 2Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- 3Dept of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- 4Interventional Endoscopy Clinic, University Hospital UZ Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- R. Loddenkemper, Former Head of Department of Pneumology II, Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Walterhöferstr. 11, 14165 Berlin, Germany, E-mail: rloddenkemper{at}dgpberlin.de
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Vol 8 Issue 2
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History and clinical use of thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy in respiratory medicine
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- Abstract
- Introduction
- Thoracoscopy as a therapeutic procedure in tuberculosis: “Jacobaeus Operation”
- Thoracoscopy as a therapeutic tool in non-tuberculous diseases
- Further development of thoracoscopy as a diagnostic tool in the 1950s
- Development of thoracoscopy for minimally invasive surgery: surgical thoracoscopy/VATS
- Nomenclature
- Introduction of the semi-flexible pleuroscope
- Clinical use of medical thoracoscopy/pleuroscopy
- Pleural effusions
- Pleurodesis in chronic pleural effusions
- Pneumothorax
- Diffuse lung diseases
- Other indications
- Footnotes
- References
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