Safety and Complications of Medical Thoracoscopy

Table 1

Characteristics of patients undergoing medical thoracoscopy.

Characteristics	The total number of patients 127
Age, median (range), year	71.0 (33.0–92.0)
Sex, no. (%)
Male	101 (79.5)
Female	26 (20.5)
Smoking status, number (%)
Nonsmoker	44 (34.6)
Smoker	36 (28.3)
Ex-smoker	47 (37)
The affected side, number (%)
Right	69 (54.3)
Left	55 (43.3)
Bilateral	3 (2.4)
Nature of pleural fluid analysis, number (%)
Exudate	124 (97.6)
Transudate	3 (2.3)
Duration of ICT drainage, median (range), days	7.0 (0.0–47.0)
Talc poudrage, number (%)	30 (23.6)

ICT: intercostals tube.
NB: 10 of the cases of exudate were purulent and one was hemorrhagic fluid.