Thoracocentesis: from bench to bed.

Alexandros Kalifatidis George Lazaridis Sofia Baka Ioannis Mpoukovinas Vasilis Karavasilis Ioannis Kioumis Georgia Pitsiou Antonis Papaiwannou Anastasia Karavergou Kosmas Tsakiridis Nikolaos Katsikogiannis Eirini Sarika Konstantinos Kapanidis Leonidas Sakkas Ipokratis Korantzis Sofia Lampaki Konstantinos Zarogoulidis Paul Zarogoulidis

J Thorac Dis

1 Department of Radiology, 2 Thoracic Surgery, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 2 Department of Medical Oncology, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 3 Oncology Department, "Interbalkan" European Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 4 Oncology Department, "BioMedicine" Private Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 5 Pulmonary-Oncology, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 6 Thoracic Surgery Department, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 7 Surgery Department, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece ; 8 Pathology Department, "G. Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ; 9 Oncology Department, "Saint Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Published: February 2015

Lung cancer can be diagnosed with minimal interventional procedures such as: bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), fine needle aspiration under CT guidance and esophageal ultrasound. In our current editorial we will provide a definition and current up to date information regarding fine needle aspiration under CT guidance. We will focus on pneumothorax and treatment methods.

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