Safety and Performance Characteristics of Outpatient Medical Thoracoscopy and Indwelling Pleural Catheter Insertion for Evaluation and Diagnosis of Pleural Disease at a Tertiary Center in Canada
Table 5
Postprocedure details.
Postprocedure details
Days before catheter removal (median days, IQR)
34 (14.0–81.5)
Repeat diagnostic procedure performed (, %)
11 (5.0)
Repeat diagnostic pleural procedure performed (, %)
9 (4.1)
Instances that repeat pleural procedure altered diagnosis (n, %)
