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The utility of ultrasound-guided thoracentesis and pleural biopsy in undiagnosed pleural exudates

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  • Coenraad Frederik N Koegelenberg Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Elvis Malcom Irusen Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Johannes Willem Bruwer Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Enas Mansour A Batubara Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andreas Henri Diacon Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Division of Medical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Coenraad FN Koegelenberg, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, PO Box 241, Cape Town 8000, South Africa; coeniefn{at}sun.ac.za
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Koegelenberg CFN, Irusen EM, von Groote-Bidlingmaier F, et al
The utility of ultrasound-guided thoracentesis and pleural biopsy in undiagnosed pleural exudates
Thorax 2015;70:995-997.

Publication history

  • Received November 11, 2014
  • Revised January 27, 2015
  • Accepted April 26, 2015
  • First published May 21, 2015.
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September 01, 2022

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