Title: [Transthoracic lung-biopsy in diffuse lung diseases (author's transl)].
Abstract:A report is given about 360 percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsies in diffuse affections of the lung framework. By means of a good cooperation between skilled lung physician and experienced lung pat...A report is given about 360 percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsies in diffuse affections of the lung framework. By means of a good cooperation between skilled lung physician and experienced lung pathologist it was able to get a definitive diagnosis in 88.3% of the cases. The expense concerning this diagnostic procedure is small. As for complications there occurred pneumothoraces (15.8%), lung haemorrhage (5.3%) and haemothorax (1 case).Read More
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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