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Table 1 Patients characteristics for medical thoracoscopy (n = 1926)

From: Safety and complications of medical thoracoscopy in the management of pleural diseases

Variable

Value

Age (years)

 Mean (±standard deviation)

51 (±8.4)

 Range

21–86

Gender

 Male

1117 (58.0)

 Female

809 (42.0)

Affected side

 Left

770 (40.0)

 Right

1102 (57.2)

 Bilateral

54 (2.8)

Operation of medical thoracoscopy

 Diagnostic procedure

662 (34.4)

 Therapeutic procedure

1264 (65.6)

 Pleurodesis

358 (28.3)

 Adhesiolysis

517 (40.9)

 Pleural decortication of empyema*

125 (9.9)

 Bulla electrocoagulation

264 (20.9)

Types of instruments

 Rigid medical thoracoscopy

1586 (82.4)

 Semi-rigid medical thoracoscopy

340 (17.6)

  1. *Cases of empyema were diagnosed before medical thoracoscopy;
  2. Values are presented as No. (%) unless otherwise indicated