Brief Overview about Different Modalities of Pleural Biopsy For Undiagnosed Exudative Pleural Effusion

Abstract

 Background:   In many cases of exudative pleural effusion, the results were not conclusive even after (repeated) thoracocentesis; that mostly need confirmatory pleural tissue biopsy. Pleural biopsy is indicated to define the etiology of pleural diseases; the biopsy obtaining techniques are variable starting from the older ones such as blind pleural biopsy reaching the newer techniques such as image guided pleural biopsy and thoracoscopy guided pleural biopsy.