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Section of Thoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, 2950 Cleveland Clinic Blvd, Weston, FL 33331

(Email: mortmak@ccf.org).

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The intentional creation of a pneumothorax to safely allow a transpleural biopsy of a mediastinal mass was first described by Bressler and Kirkham [1]. In 1994 they reported a series of 36 patients who underwent alternative approaches to the biopsy of mediastinal lesions. Four of these 36 patients were given an iatrogenic pneumothorax to biopsy a mass in the subcarinal space. One patient had a transpleural biopsy of a mediastinal mass . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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