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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