Research Article
Feasibility and Safety of Pleuroscopic Cryobiopsy of the Pleura: A Prospective Study
Table 1
Characteristics of the patients.
| | Characteristics | Medical pleuroscopy patients (n = 92) |
| | Age | 64.8 ± 13.9 | | Sex (n, %) | | | Male | 60 (65.2) | | Female | 32 (34.8) | | Underlying disease (n, %) | | | None | 35 (38.0) | | Malignancy | 26 (28.3) | | DM | 11 (12.0) | | ESRD | 5 (5.4) | | CHF | 5 (5.4) | | Reason for medical pleuroscopy (n, %) | | | Unknown pleural effusion | 83 (90.2) | | Rebiopsy | 9 (9.8) |
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