Early experience with videothoracoscopic
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James C. Harvey; Christopher B. Erdman; Edward J. Beattie
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Parietal pleurectomy is our preferred procedure for management of malignant pleural effusion. However, the morbidity of a major thoracotomy has precluded all but highly selected patients from the conventional (open) procedure. Recently, we have been able to perform parietal pleurectomy