Annual Congress Stockholm 2002

Saturday, 14.09.2002
Sunday, 15.09.2002
Monday, 16.09.2002
Tuesday, 17.09.2002
Wednesday, 18.09.2002

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, abstract number.


Material from 2002:
  • 3388  Abstracts
  • 6 Slide presentations
  • 5 Handouts
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Pleural disease

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: A. Diacon (Basel, Switzerland), M. Marel (Prague, Czech Republic)
Pleural needle biopsy in the diagnosis of pleural effusions
M. S. Vejnovic, D. S. Jelacic (Sombor, Yugoslavia)
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Closed pleural biopsy in diagnosis of pleural effusion
J. Soja, A. Szlubowski, D. Wasowski, K. Sladek (Krakow, Poland)
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In search of an ideal method to diagnose undetermined exudative pleural effusions
M. B. N. B. Prasad, K. Shashirekha, S. C. Tiwari (Ranchi, India)
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Videothoracoscopic lung biopsy (VTLB) as the method of choice for diagnosis of diffuse lung diseases (DLD)
V. G. Pischik, M. A. Atiukov, T. A. Stepanenko, O. B. Ilyina, N. E. Okuneva, T. A. Fedorova, P. K. Yablonsky (St-Petersburg, Russia)
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Evolution of exudative pleural effusion after non-diagnostic thoracoscopy
S. Ramlal, M. Mravunac, J. P. Janssen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
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CD8+ lymphocyte subpopulations in pleural fluid are associated with longer survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) submitted to thoracoscopic talc pleurodesis
A. Hernández Martnez, L. Gómez Izquierdo, R. Santiago Villalobos, J. Martn Juan, J. Castillo Gómez, F. Rodrguez Panadero (Seville, Spain)
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The profile of neutrophils and D-dimer in pleural fluid is useful to monitor the pleurodesis process after talc poudrage in malignant pleural effusions (MPE)
B. Romero Romero, K. Psathakis, E. Calderón Osuna, J. Martin Juan, J. Castillo Gómez, F. Rodrguez-Panadero (Seville, Spain)
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Overview of thoracoscopic findings between 1975 and 2000 in Hacettepe university hospital
T. Selçuk, B. Ergan, A. U. Demir, L. Çöplü, P. Firat, S. Emri, F. Kalyoncu, A. Şahin, M. Artvinli (Ankara, Turkey)
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Thoracoscopy for diagnosis of interstitial pneumonias
N. Anastasiou, D. Zachilas, M. Adamopoulou, D. Lempesi, A. Katsipoulakis, G. Papavasileiou, N. Thalassinos, S. Malagaris (Athens, Greece)
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Treatment of empyema thoracis by medical thoracoscopy
N. Anastasiou, D. Zachilas, M. Adamopoulou, N. Thalassinos, S. Malagaris, G. Papavasileiou, A. Staurakis (Athens, Greece)
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