Abstract
Thoracoscopy is a well established invasive method for the diagnosis and management of pleural nosologies. The role and the impact that this procedure exerts in settings alongside the diagnostic yield in pleural malignancies are unquestionable. New insights and novel techniques promise an even greater future towards the usefulness of this technique in interventional pneumonology. This is a short review highlighting the principles and novel aspects in the evolutionary progress of pleuroscopy.
Highlights
Thoracoscopy is the oldest invasive method in the modern pleural diagnostics
Ever since thoracoscopy has been abandoned as a therapeutic modality for tuberculosis, but its role has been elucidated in a vast of pleural disorders
Siddique role of the flexible bronchoscope has gradually gained his role in the terrain of invasive pleural diagnostic procedures
Summary
Thoracoscopy is the oldest invasive method in the modern pleural diagnostics. More than a century has passed since 1910, when the Swedish physician Hanz-Christian Jacobaeus pioneered with his evolutionary approach in tuberculosis pleurisy. Thoracoscopy is the oldest invasive method in the modern pleural diagnostics. Ever since thoracoscopy has been abandoned as a therapeutic modality for tuberculosis, but its role has been elucidated in a vast of pleural disorders. The diagnostic accuracy with regard to the patients with malignant pleural effusions undergoing thoracoscopy, is 95% [2] [3].
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