PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mungall, I P
AU  - Cowen, P N
AU  - Cooke, N T
AU  - Roach, T C
AU  - Cooke, N J
TI  - Multiple pleural biopsy with the Abrams needle.
AID  - 10.1136/thx.35.8.600
DP  - 1980 Aug 01
TA  - Thorax
PG  - 600--602
VI  - 35
IP  - 8
4099  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/35/8/600.short
4100  - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/35/8/600.full
SO  - Thorax1980 Aug 01; 35
AB  - Multiple pleural biopsies (up to 10) were taken with the Abrams needle through a single aspiration site in 55 patients with pleural effusions. A definite positive or suggestive pleural biopsy diagnosis was made in 33 patients (60%). In 32 of the 33 patients the pathological abnormality was confined to only a proportion of the biopsies. Pleural biopsies were positive or suggestive in 26 out of 36 patients (72%) eventually shown to have tumour and seven out of eight patients (88%) with tuberculosis. Small pneumothoraces occurred in four patients and surgical emphysema in two.