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Image Guided Thoracic Interventions

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This chapter describes the major types of thoracic interventional procedures, including radiofrequency ablation, transthoracic needle biopsy of lung, mediastinal and pleural disease, thoracentesis, and pleural chest tube drainage. The clinical indications for these procedures, risks and complications of each procedure, and where appropriate, a description of how they are performed are covered. This chapter should be relevant to the chest clinician to better understand risks and benefits of interventional chest procedures, hopefully leading to a better understanding of the appropriate use of each procedure and to help explain them to their patients.

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  1. Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK

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  2. Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada

    Kayvan Amjadi

  3. Interventional Pulmonology, Civic Hospital, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada

    Kayvan Amjadi

  4. Department of Medical Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, 501 Smyth Rd., Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada

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Barnes, D., Amjadi, K., Seely, J.M. (2012). Image Guided Thoracic Interventions. In: Kanne, J. (eds) Clinically Oriented Pulmonary Imaging. Respiratory Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-542-8_17

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