Rapid on-site evaluation of touch imprints of medical thoracoscopy biopsy tissue for the management of pleural disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Medical thoracoscopy (MT) plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural diseases, and rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) has long been used for transbronchial needle aspiration or fine-needle aspiration to evaluate the adequacy of biopsy materials for the diagnosis of peripheral lung lesions. However, research on ROSE combined with MT for the management of pleural disease has been rarely reported. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of ROSE for pleura biopsies and visual diagnosis by thoracoscopists for gross thoracoscopic appearance. The secondary objective was to assess the intermodality agreement between ROSE and the final histopathologic diagnosis.

Methods

A total of 579 patients with exudative pleural effusion (EPE)

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288871 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature