Annual Congress Vienna 2003

Saturday, 27.09.2003
Sunday, 28.09.2003
Monday, 29.09.2003
Tuesday, 30.09.2003
Wednesday, 01.10.2003

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2003; 22: Suppl. 45, abstract number.


Material from 2003:
  • 3196 Abstracts
  • 374 Slide presentations
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Pleural disease and transthoracic procedures

Poster Discussion
Chairs: A. Diacon (Tygerberg, South Africa), F. Rodriguez Panadero (Sevilla, Spain)
Kinetic of calibrated talc particles and efficacy for symphysis after intrapleural administration by slurry or poudrage: An experimental study in goats
A. Fraticelli, B. Escarguel, A. Robaglia, P. Cau, P. Astoul (Marseille, France)
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Comparison of production of interleukin-8 (IL-8) after stimulation of human mesothelial cells "in vitro" with different types of talc
A. Montes Worboys, L. Gómez Izquierdo, J. Martín Juan, R. Santiago Villalobos, J. Castillo Gómez, F. Rodriguez-Panadero (Seville, Spain)
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Aetiology assessment of spontaneous pneumothorax in young subjects
N. A. Repina, L. N. Novikova, A. L. Akopov, O. V. Lukina, V. P. Molotsova (St Petersburg, Russia)
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Comparison of the 2.0 mm and 3.5 mm minithoracoscopy set to standard equipment for medical thoracoscopy
J. P. Janssen, F. B. J. M. Thunnissen, F. J. Visser (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
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Intra- and inter-observer reliability in estimation of pneumothorax size
A. Thelle, T. Wentzel-Larsen, T. Duelien, F. H. Andersen, P. S. Bakke (Bergen, Norway)
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Separating malignant from nonmalignant pleural effusion on the basis of PO2 in pleural effusion
V. Karlicic (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
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An algorithm for the investigation of isolated suspected malignant pleural effusions
M. Al-Aloul, U. Oyolu, A. McIver, A. Mirakhur, M. J. Ledson, M. J. Walshaw (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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ECG abnormalities in patients with spontaneous pneumothorax (SP)
J. Nasilowski, R. Krenke, T. Przybylowski, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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A comparison of two different transthoracic tru-cut biopsy methods
S. Savas, S. Akcay, M. A. Habesoglu, C. Aytekin, L. Oguzkurt (Ankara, Adana, Turkey)
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A role of thoracoscopic approach in the diagnosis and management of hepatic hydrothorax
A. Nakamura, T. Kato, T. Kutsuna, K. Tonegawa, T. Niwa, A. Kawai, H. Nakao, T. Nomura, M. Itoh (Nagoya, Japan)
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The role of diagnostic thoracoscopy in patients with lung cancer and pleural effusion
A. Debeljak, P. Kecelj, J. Erzen, I. Kern (Golnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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A Case of air embolism during percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy
F. Secik, F. Atabey, E. Cetinkaya, R. Dodurgali, A. Poluman (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Transthoracic fine-needle aspiration for the diagnosis of pulmonary lesions
G. Fernandes, L. Iglesias, A. Machado, M. Drumond, A. Morais, H. Barroca, J. Lopes, I. Amendoeira, C. Saldanha, O. Vidal, A. Santos (Porto, Portugal)
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Fluoroscopy and/or ultrasound guided thick needle biopsy of peripheral intrathoracic tumours
A. S. Lantos, A. V. Nagy, J. Appel, Z. Bartfai, A. Somoskovi, Z. Orosz, G. Galffy, E. Tarjan, P. Magyar (Budapest, Hungary)
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