The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Utility of Thoracoscopy

Postoperative pain-related morbidity: Video-assisted thoracic surgery versus thoracotomy

1993 • 604 citations

Lobectomy—video-assisted thoracic surgery versus muscle-sparing thoracotomy: A randomized trial

1995 • 455 citations

Comparison of Needle Biopsy With Cytologic Analysis for the Evaluation of Pleural Effusion: Analysis of 414 Cases

1985 • 444 citations

Chemical Pleurodesis for Malignant Pleural Effusions

1994 • 425 citations

Open Biopsy for Chronic Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease: Clinical, Roentgenographic, and Physiological Correlations in 502 Patients

1980 • 346 citations

Thoracoscopy for the Diagnosis of Pleural Disease

1991 • 328 citations

Thoracoscopic Esophagomyotomy Initial Experience With a New Approach for the Treatment of Achalasia

1992 • 313 citations

Transthoracic needle aspiration biopsy of benign and malignant lung lesions

1985 • 300 citations

Present role of thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest

1992 • 299 citations

Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy.

1988 • 278 citations

Surgery for Pulmonary Metastasis: A 20-Year Experience

1984 • 275 citations

Talc Pleurodesis for the Treatment of Pneumothorax and Pleural Effusion

1994 • 265 citations

Thoracoscopy for the diagnosis of the indeterminate solitary pulmonary nodule

1993 • 262 citations

Initial experience with video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy

1993 • 256 citations

Efficacy of Pleural Needle Biopsy and Pleural Fluid Cytopathology in the Diagnosis of Malignant Neoplasm Involving the Pleura

1975 • 255 citations

Direct percutaneous needle aspiration of localized pulmonary lesions: result in 422 patients.

1980 • 246 citations

Adult respiratory distress syndrome following intrapleural instillation of talc

1983 • 223 citations

Thoracoscopic resection of 85 pulmonary lesions

1992 • 215 citations

[Thoracoscopy in malignant pleural effusions].

1996 • 196 citations

Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery Study Group data

1993 • 185 citations

Comparison of Video Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy to Open Lung Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease

1993 • 185 citations

Thoracoscopic carbon dioxide laser treatment of bullous emphysema

1991 • 181 citations

Comparison of insufflated talc under thoracoscopic guidance with standard tetracycline and bleomycin pleurodesis for control of malignant pleural effusions

1993 • 175 citations

Comparison of open versus thoracoscopic lung biopsy for diffuse infiltrative pulmonary disease

1993 • 170 citations

Thoracoscopy in the management of anterior mediastinal masses

1993 • 168 citations

Comparison of Median Sternotomy and Thoracotomy for Resection of Pulmonary Metastases in Patients with Adult Soft-Tissue Sarcomas

1986 • 168 citations

Acute Pneumonitis with Bilateral Pleural Effusion after Talc Pleurodesis

1984 • 149 citations

Low Glucose and pH Levels in Malignant Pleural Effusions: Diagnostic Significance and Prognostic Value in Respect to Pleurodesis

1989 • 147 citations

Thoracoscopic debridement and pleural irrigation in the management of empyema thoracis

1991 • 142 citations

Thoracoscopy: A review of 121 consecutive surgical procedures

1989 • 140 citations

Management of solitary pulmonary nodules

1991 • 138 citations

The Impact of Thoracoscopy on the Management of Pleural Disease

1995 • 135 citations

Expanded applications of diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopy

1991 • 135 citations

Open-Lung Biopsy in Diffuse Pulmonary Disease

1964 • 134 citations

Thoracoscopy in the diagnosis of pleural effusion.

1977 • 130 citations

Thoracoscopy: present diagnostic and therapeutic indications

1993 • 124 citations

Thoracoscopy

1979 • 115 citations

EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SOLITARY AND MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES

1992 • 112 citations

Complications of thoracoscopy

1993 • 110 citations

Resection of Pulmonary Blebs and Pleurodesis for Spontaneous Pneumothorax

1993 • 105 citations

The Treatment of Recurrent Malignant Pleural Effusion

1979 • 104 citations

The outcome of patients with pleural effusion of indeterminate cause at thoracotomy.

1981 • 102 citations

Thoracoscopic Talc Poudrage Pleurodesis for Chronic Recurrent Pleural Effusions

1991 • 100 citations

Thoracoscopy and talc poudrage for pneumothoraces and effusions

1990 • 95 citations

Thoracoscopy under regional anesthesia for the diagnosis and management of pleural disease

1987 • 93 citations

Nd:YAG laser pleurodesis through thoracoscopy: New curative therapy in spontaneous pneumothorax

1989 • 90 citations

Videothoracoscopic wedge excision of the lung

1992 • 89 citations

Complications of thoracoscopy.

1981 • 87 citations

An Integrated Approach to Evaluation of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

1990 • 86 citations

Thoracoscopic pericardiectomy for effusive pericardial disease

1993 • 82 citations

The use of fiberoptic bronchoscopy and brush biopsy in the diagnosis of suspected pulmonary malignancy.

1974 • 81 citations

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Current State of the Art

1994 • 78 citations

Cost analysis for thoracoscopy: Thoracoscopic wedge resection

1993 • 77 citations

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pleuroscopy

1980 • 74 citations

Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy and fluoroscopically guided transbronchial biopsy in the management of solitary pulmonary nodules.

1982 • 74 citations

Early and late outcome after diagnostic thoracoscopy and talc pleurodesis

1992 • 73 citations

Video-assisted thoracoscopic resection of pulmonary metastases

1993 • 72 citations

VATS increases costs in patients undergoing lung biopsy for interstitial lung disease

1994 • 71 citations

Spontaneous pneumothorax

1983 • 67 citations

Thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and management of recurrent pleural effusions

1991 • 66 citations

Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy

1982 • 66 citations

Pneumothorax

1993 • 63 citations

Diagnostic Thoracoscopy

1973 • 61 citations

Long term sequelae after talc pleurodesis for spontaneous pneumothorax.

1989 • 60 citations

Estimating the Probability of Malignancy in Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

2015 • 57 citations

Thoracoscopy in the Early Diagnosis of Malignant Pleural Effusions

1980 • 56 citations

Thoracoscopic technique for management of giant bullous lung disease

1993 • 56 citations

Diagnostic and therapeutic thoracoscopy: techniques and indications in pulmonary medicine

1993 • 55 citations

Talc Poudrage in the Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothoraces in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

1986 • 48 citations

Solitary pulmonary nodule

1988 • 44 citations

Thoracoscopic Surgery for Diseases of the Lung and Pleura Effectiveness, Changing Indications, and Limitations

1993 • 43 citations

Patients with T1 N0 non-SCLC lung cancer

1991 • 40 citations

Investigation of pleural effusion: comparison betweenfibreoptic thoracoscopy, needle biopsy and cytology

1990 • 39 citations

Endoscopic transthoracic sympathectomy: Experience in the South West of England

1992 • 36 citations

Prospective individual comparison of blind needle biopsy and of thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy.

1978 • 35 citations

Resection of Pulmonary Metastases

1993 • 34 citations

Diagnostic thoracoscopy.

1981 • 31 citations

Limited resection of bronchogenic carcinoma in the patient with impaired pulmonary function

1993 • 30 citations

Atlas of Diagnostic Thoracoscopy

2015 • 28 citations

Endoscopy assisted microthoracotomy: initial experience.

1992 • 25 citations

Nd-YAG Laser Pleurodesis Via Thoracoscopy

1994 • 25 citations

Thoracoscopy in the Diagnosis of Pleural Effusions

1989 • 22 citations

“Medical” Thoracoscopy

1994 • 17 citations

Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy in Interstitial Lung Disease

1992 • 14 citations

Invited commentary

1991 • 1 citations