Doenças pulmonares intersticiais: Acuidade diagnóstica e riscos da biópsia pulmonar cirúrgica Interstitial lung disease: Diagnostic accuracy and safety of surgical lung biopsy
2009
This study reports our experience, diagnostic accuracy and safety of surgical lung biopsy in patients with interstitial lung diseases. From January 1998 – December 2007 surgical lung biopsy was performed in 53 patients (22 female [41.5%]; age 47.2±13 years). A total of 37 patients (69.8%) underwent videothoracoscopic lung biopsy and minithoracotomy was performed in 16 patients (30.2%). Right lung was the choice in 47 patients (88.7%). Postoperative complications were rare (9.4%) and included three prolonged air leaks (5.7%), one pneumothorax re
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