Centennial Symposium: 100 years of thoracoscopy

Symposium
Chairs: R. Loddenkemper (Berlin, Germany), F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Aims: After this session, the audience will :
- know the history of 100 years of thoracoscopy;
- know the place of thoracoscopy in the diagnostic workup of pleural effusions;
- have had update on the place of thoracoscopy in pleurodesis, pneumothorax, empyema, and sympathectomy
- knows about surgical indications for thoracoscopy

100 years of thoracoscopy, developments since Jacobeus G. Tassi (Gussago, Italy)
Thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and treatmnet of malignant pleural effusion J. Janssen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
The surgeon's view on thoracoscopy and thoracoscopic surgery G. Cardillo (Rome, Italy)