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Uniportal VATS Pleural Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Exudative Pleural Effusion: Awake or Intubated?
2020-07-24
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic efficacy and safety of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) with awake VATS (AVATS) pleural biopsy in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions. Methods The diagnostic efficacy of pleural biopsy by uniportal VATS under general anesthesia or AVATS under local anesthesia and sedation performed by the same surgeon in pati...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f9e9de06-e458-5240-b76a-ec4a050e8a9a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-45349/v1
