ArticleERJ open research2018
Pleural tuberculosis: medical thoracoscopy greatly increases the diagnostic accuracy.
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- Diagnostic utility of various gross thoracoscopic appearances in tuberculous pleural effusion and their correlation with microbiological and histopathological findings - a hospital-based prospective observational cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Two Case Reports of Drug-Resistant Tuberculous Pleurisy in Children: Thoracoscopic Pleural Biopsy and PCR-Based Drug-Resistance Testing.Infection and drug resistance · 2026Article
- Comparative diagnostic efficacy of ultrasound-guided, medical thoracoscopic, and blind pleural biopsy in tuberculous pleurisy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- The Use of Flexible Bronchoscope for Diagnostic Medical Thoracoscopy in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Retrospective Study.Tanaffos · 2025Article
- Microbiological confirmation of tuberculous pleurisy with medical thoracoscopy: targeted pleural washing and pleural biopsy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Single-centre observational study of the safety and efficacy of thoracoscopy under local anaesthesia for the management of thoracic infections.BMC research notes · 2024Observational
- Diagnostic accuracy and microbial profiles of tuberculous pleurisy: a comparative study of metagenomic next generation sequencing and GeneXpertFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- Investigating the appropriate adenosine deaminase cutoff value for the diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion in a country with decreasing TB burden.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Rapid Detection ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The future of medical thoracoscopy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2021Article
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- Efficacy and safety of semi-flexible thoracoscopic cryobiopsy in the diagnosis of elderly tuberculous pleurisy.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2020Article
- Same-Day Tools, Including Xpert Ultra and IRISA-TB, for Rapid Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis: a Prospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2019Observational
- Diagnosis of tuberculosis pleurisy with three endoscopic featuresTherapeutic advances in respiratory diseaseArticle
- Medical thoracoscopy for tuberculous pleurisy: A retrospective analysis of 575 cases.Annals of thoracic medicineArticle
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Abstract
Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of a standardised work-up in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (TB) that included fibreoptic bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy. A consecutive series of 52 pleural TB patients observed during the period 2001-2015 was evaluated retrospectively. 20 females, mean (range) age 39.7 (18-74) years, and 32 males, mean (range) age 45.75 (21-83) years, were included (28 non-EU citizens (53.8%)). The diagnosis of TB infections was established by identification (using stains, culture or molecular tests) of
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