Medical Thoracoscopy for Diagnosing Unexplained Pleural Effusion: a National Multicenter Retrospective Study

China-Japan Friendship Hospital

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Pleural Effusion, Malignant; Pleural Effusion; Fibrinous Pleuritis

Treatments: Procedure: Medical thoracoscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06275178

ZRJY2021-BJ08-02-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a national multicenter retrospective study. Patients with unexplained pleural effusion who underwent thoracoscopic or video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy for patients in recent 10 years were retrospectively collected from multiple centers to understand the proportion and final etiological composition of pleural effusion in China.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with unexplained pleural effusion who underwent thoracoscopic or video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy

Exclusion criteria

Patients who cannot obtain a final diagnosis