Open AccessIncidence of malignancy and survival in patients with idiopathic pleuritis
Author(s) -
Simon Reuter,
Paul Frost Clementsen,
Uffe Bødtger
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.136
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , thoracoscopy , incidence (geometry) , thoracentesis , cancer registry , surgery , video assisted thoracoscopic surgery , retrospective cohort study , cancer , pleural effusion , physics , optics
The long-term outcome after non-diagnostic thoracoscopy (idiopathic pleuritis) has not been investigated in nationwide studies, and the survival has never been estimated. Therefore, we decided to investigate the three-year incidence of malignancy and survival of patients with idiopathic pleuritis.