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2013, Clinics in Chest MedicineCitation Excerpt :Pooling results from all of these gives a combined diagnostic rate of 92.6%, based on a total sample of 1369 patients,33 which is certainly comparable to rates achieved using VATS.34 Some disparity in diagnostic values also seems to exist when pleural mesothelioma is analyzed separately, with a series by Boutin and Rey35 reporting a 98% success rate compared with 60% in another, marginally smaller, series.30 Separate to diagnostic ability, however, is the appeal of the one-stop thoracoscopic approach, which is especially strong in mesothelioma given the extremely high rates of recurrent pleural effusion in this condition.36
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