[Application of videothoracoscopic pleurodesis in malignant exudative pleuritis].
Experience of the different etiology metastatic pleuritis treatment in 15 patients was summarized. The method of videothoracoscopic pleurodesis performance after wide biopsy of parietal pleura was depicted. Various methods of pleurodesis performance, using electrocoagulation, laser irradiation, chemical substances, are adduced. The technique of videothoracoscopic interventions performance and complications are depicted in detail. In 80% of patients the fair result, demonstrated by cessation of the exudates production, was achieved.
Severgin
V E
VE
Shipulin
P P
PP
Grubnik
V V
VV
Martyniuk
V A
VA
Baĭdan
V V
VV
Kiriliuk
A A
AA
D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016066:Pleural Effusion, Malignant / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D018700:Pleurodesis / Q000379:methods*; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome