Open AccessOptimizing the Approach to Patients With Pleural Effusion and Radiologic Findings Suspect for Cancer
Author(s) -
Bashar Alzghoul,
Ayoub Innabi,
Swathi Subramany,
Bradley Boye,
Kshitij Chatterjee,
Vikas Koppurapu,
Thaddeus Bartter,
Nikhil Meena
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of bronchology and interventional pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1944-6586
pISSN - 1948-8270
DOI - 10.1097/lbr.0000000000000537
Subject(s) - medicine , thoracentesis , pleural effusion , malignancy , biopsy , malignant pleural effusion , sampling (signal processing) , surgery , radiology , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision
When patients present with pleural effusion and structural abnormalities consistent with malignancy on imaging, the traditional approach has been to perform a thoracentesis and await the results before proceeding to more invasive diagnostic procedures. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether concurrent thoracentesis and tissue biopsy is superior to sequential sampling.