title: Pleural interventions. Indications, techniques, and clinical applications.
abstract: Pleural interventions represent one of the newest frontiers of interventional radiology. Many of the data are preliminary, but it is tempting to postulate that future side-by-side comparisons would prove these innovations superior to unguided techniques. Each procedure utilizes similar principles of pleural intervention yet emphasizes unique issues pertinent to the disease processes involved.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Silverman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saini
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Mueller
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004322:Drainage / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography