Videothoracoscopic lung biopsy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease
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- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Vol. 16 (6) , 624-627
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(99)00320-6
Abstract
Objective: Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) require lung biopsy for the diagnosis in more than 30% of patients. Open lung biopsy (OLB) was generallyKeywords
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