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[Surgical lung biopsy: Indications and therapeutic implications]
1Service de chirurgie thoracique et vasculaire, pôle activités cancérologiques spécialisées, hôpital Avicenne, CHU de Paris-Seine-Saint-Denis, AP-HP, 125 rue de Stalingrad, Bobigny cedex, France.
Revue De Pneumologie Clinique
|March 20, 2012
Abstract:
Surgical biopsy of lung parenchyma can be used to establish a diagnosis in interstitial lung disease both of acute and chronic presentation. The present article summarizes the current indications, the therapeutic implications, the different surgical techniques and postoperative complications of the procedure. Common controversies and problems related to surgical lung biopsy are also presented.