Safety and Complications of Medical Thoracoscopy

Table 2

Diagnostic outcome of medical thoracoscopy in 127 patients.

Malignant (; 54.3% of total)	Benign (; 45.7% of total)
Primary lung cancer 35 (27.5% of total)	Nonspecific pleuritis 27 (21.3% of total)
Metastasis to pleura 16 (12.6% of total)	Tuberculosis 15 (11.8% of total)
Mesothelioma 18 (14.2% of total)	Empyema 10 (7.9% of total)
	Hypoalbuminemia 2 (1.6% of total)
	Uremic pleuritis 2 (1.6% of total)
	Drug induced pleuritis 1 (0.9% of total)
	Ruptured bulla 1 (0.9% of total)

NB: Cases of empyema were diagnosed before doing MT; they were not postprocedure complications.