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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Maldonado F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5516219 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
F1000Research 20170717
The burden of pleural diseases has substantially increased in the past decade because of a rise in the incidence of pleural space infections and pleural malignancies in a patient population that is older and more immunocompromised and has more comorbidities. This complexity increasingly requires minimally invasive diagnostic options and tailored management. Implications for patients are such that the limitations of current diagnostic methods need to be addressed by multidisciplinary teams of inv ...[more]