Thoracoscopy before Jacobaeus

Hoksch, Beatrix; Birken-Bertsch, Hanno; Müller, J. M.

doi:10.1016/s0003-4975(02)03676-7

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“…Cruise in Ireland. 4 It was followed subsequently by a paper by H.C. Jacobaeus in 1910. 5 Medical thoracoscopy also known as pleuroscopy is a safe and minimally invasive procedure in trained hands of pulmonologist which can be performed under local anaesthesia in an endoscopy suite.…”

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Medical thoracoscopy- an experience

et al. 2017

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Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases especially undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion. It is cost effective and safe. The diagnostic yield in undiagnosed pleural effusion is excellent.Methods: This prospective observational study was done in Government Chest Disease hospital of Government Medical College, Srinagar during the period between December 2015 to Dec 2016.Thirty undiagnosed pleural effusion patients after thoracocentesis and who fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria’s were included in the study. Medical thoracoscopy using rigid thoracoscope was started for the first time in our hospital and was done in these enrolled patients. Clinical, Thoracoscopic findings and histopathological data of the patients were collected prospectively and analysed.Results: Maximum patients were in the age group of 41-50 years. Most common Thoracoscopic finding was multiple nodules (40%) followed by sago grain infiltration (33.4%). Malignancy was the most common HPE finding of pleural biopsy (46.6%) followed by TB (33.3%). All nodules (13) turned out to be malignant while all sago grain appearance pleura (10) turned out of to be TB. The overall diagnostic yield is 80% as a whole and 96% among patients who had thoracoscopic pleural findings.Conclusions: Medical Thoracoscopy is a safe and easy outpatient procedure and an excellent diagnostic tool for undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion. The diagnostic yield is quite high and complications of procedure are negligible.

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Medical thoracoscopy- an experience

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“…The first relevant published report demonstrated thoracoscopy for diagnostic evaluation of the pleural space. It was performed by an Irish physician, Sir Francis Richard Cruise, with a binocular endoscope in 1866 [1]. At that time, a few enthusiastic pioneers worked on developing endoscopic techniques with perseverance despite numerous setbacks.…”

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Lobectomy by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for early stage of non-small cell lung cancer

Zhu

Chen

2011

Front. Med.

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Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) provides a new approach for treating early-stage lung cancer. Lobectomy by VATS has many advantages over conventional thoracotomy, such as shorter recovery time, less postoperative pain, and faster resumption of a normal lifestyle. However, there is still much debate on the role of VATS in lobectomy for the treatment of lung cancer. Concerns regarding safety, the extent of mediastinal lymph node dissection, and long-term survival have made some surgeons apprehensive of its validity for lung cancer. In this paper, we review the development of thoracoscopy, the present status of VATS for early stage of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and comparison between VATS and open thoracotomy in the management of NSCLC.

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“…In a thorough historical review by Reuter and Reuter [4], however, there is a report that Francis Richard Cruise performed a binocular thoracoscopy in 1866, well before Jacobaeus’s first publication in 1910. This point was further brought to light in a 2002 article from the Annals of Thoracic Surgery in which Hoksch et al [20 ]also wrote that the term ‘thoracoscopy’ could be found in several French dictionaries as early as 1842.…”

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