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Procedures in the evaluation of chest disease
1Department of Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham.
Clinics in Chest Medicine
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
The evaluation of chest disease may require one or more procedures. Bronchoscopy, both rigid and flexible, mediastinoscopy, mediastinotomy, chest tube drainage, lung biopsy, thoracoscopy, and pleural biopsy are described, with indications, contraindications, and results detailed.