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Joseph Shrager

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  • Complications of video-assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsy in patients with interstitial lung disease.

    Kreider ME, Hansen-Flaschen J, Ahmad NN, Rossman MD, Kaiser LR, Kucharczuk JC, Shrager JB. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007; 83 (3): 1140-4

    Current guidelines recommend surgical lung biopsy for diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) in selected patients. To shed light on the risk-benefit ratio for this recommendation, we examined the morbidity and mortality associated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) lung biopsy in a group of outpatients.

    PubMedID: 17307476

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