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Table 1 Results of thoracoscopy in all patients (n = 26)

From: Narrow band imaging (NBI) during medical thoracoscopy: first impressions

Pat.

Gender

Age

Macroscopical findings

Histological diagnosis

1

female

81

chronic inflammation, pleural thickening (visceral and parietal)

chronic pleuritis (underlying disease: chronic renal failure)

2

male

74

multiple polyps (parietal)

small cell lung cancer

3

male

69

small nodes (parietal), adhesions

squamous-cell lung cancer

4

female

62

Adhesions, small nodes (parietal)

malignant mesothelioma

5

female

58

small confluent nodes (parietal)

breast cancer

6

male

59

pleural thickening (parietal)

lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)

7

female

81

large nodes (parietal and visceral), adhesions

malignant mesothelioma

8

male

47

large nodes (parietal), adhesions

malignant mesothelioma

9

female

65

small confluent nodes (parietal)

breast cancer

10

female

63

solitary node/polyp (parietal)

ovarian cancer

11

female

68

acute inflammation, adhesions, lymphangiectasis

breast cancer

12

male

64

small confluent nodes, polyps (parietal)

malignant mesothelioma

13

male

85

large nodes, polyps (parietal and visceral)

malignant mesothelioma

14

male

82

pleural plaques (parietal), adhesions

squamous-cell lung cancer

15

male

64

pleural plaques (parietal), small confluent nodes

malignant mesothelioma

16

female

88

multiple large nodes (parietal and visceral)

lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)

17

female

37

acute inflammation, adhesions, pleural thickening

tuberculous pleurisy

18

female

46

no abnormalities

inflammatory changes (underlying diease: squamous-cell lung cancer, effusion e vacuo)

19

female

63

subacute inflammation, pleural thickening

malignant mesothelioma

20

female

63

large nodes, polyps (parietal and visceral)

lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)

21

female

82

large confluent nodes, polyps (parietal and visceral)

malignant mesothelioma

22

male

64

multiple small nodes, polyps (parietal and visceral)

malignant mesothelioma

23

male

72

pleural thickening, solitary polyps

squamous-cell lung cancer

24

male

66

pleural thickening, adhesions

small cell lung cancer

25

female

80

large solitary nodes (parietal)

breast cancer

26

female

67

large solitary nodes (parietal) and chronic inflammatory changes

lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)