title: Thoracoscopy: a real-life perspective.
abstract: This article focuses on thoracoscopy for pleural procedures, both diagnostic and therapeutic, and discusses whether there is a difference between pleuroscopy and thoracoscopy or video-assisted thoracic surgery. How thinking should be structured regarding the management of pleural disease in the modern context of available approaches and interventions is also discussed.
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, BB205, New Haven, CT 06520-8062, USA. frank.detterbeck@yale.edu
authors: Frank C
authors: FC
authors: Detterbeck
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D013906:Thoracoscopy / Q000379:methods*