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Skills course: Thoracoscopy and Pleural Techniques - October 2025 Medical thoracoscopy: basic approach

Skills course: Thoracoscopy and Pleural Techniques - October 2025

This course was aimed at pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who wanted to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology. As a rule, one third of the course was devoted to hands-on workshops and two thirds to the theoretical aspects of bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy. Each course was tutored by four to six internationally recognised experts.

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Session type: Lecture

Medical thoracoscopy: basic approach

Philippe Astoul

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Welcome

Bernard C. Duysinx

Introduction and description of the course

Avinash Aujayeb

Anatomy and applied physiology of the pleural space

Valentina Pinelli

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Pleural imaging: role of CXR, USS, CT, PET and MRI :what do pulmonologists have to know?

Alberto Fantin

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Break

Chest tube drainage of the pleural space: indications and pitfalls

Marios E. Froudarakis

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Non endoscopic pleural biopsy: is there a place nowadays?

Avinash Aujayeb

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Medical thoracoscopy: basic approach

Philippe Astoul

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How to anticipate and diagnose iatrogenic complications of thoracoscopy

Philippe Astoul

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Lunch Break

Skills course: Thoracoscopy and Pleural Techniques - October 2025

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