Effectiveness and Safety of Real-Time Transthoracic Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis.

Marco SperandeoCarla Maria Irene QuaratoRosario SquatritoPaolo FusoLucia DimitriAnna SimeoneStefano NotarangeloDonato Lacedonia

Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)

Real-time TUS-guided thoracentesis is a therapeutically effective and safe procedure, despite the diagnostic yield of the cytological or microbiological examinations on the collected liquid being very low. Future blinded randomized studies are required to definitely clarify the actual benefit of the real-time TUS-guided procedure over percussion-guided and other ultrasound-based procedures.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
placebo controlled
fine needle aspiration
minimally invasive
magnetic resonance imaging
double blind
clinical trial
phase iii
randomized controlled trial
current status
ionic liquid
phase ii