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Talc Poudrage

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Talc poudrage is a technique to induce pleurodesis in the pleural cavity. It is usually performed during videothoracoscopy either in local or in general anaesthesia. Safety and efficacy of such procedure have been extensively showed in all different sets: spontaneous pneumothorax and pleural effusions (either benign or malignant).

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Camillo-Forlanini, Carlo Forlanini Hospital, Via Portuense 332, Rome, 00149, Italy

    Giuseppe Cardillo M.D., FRCS, FETCS, Luigi Carbone M.D., Francesco Carleo M.D., Anna Rita Forcione M.D. & Massimo Martelli M.D.

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  1. Klinik Hirslanden, Thoraxzentrum Zürich, Witellikerstr. 40, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland

    Rolf Gilbert Carl Inderbitzi

  2. , Division of General Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Berne
, Freiburgstr. 2010, Berne, 3010, Switzerland

    Ralph Alexander Schmid

  3. , Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, Pisa, 56100, Italy

    Franca M. A. Melfi

  4. St. Mary's Hospital, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Praed Street, LONDON, W2 1NY, United Kingdom

    Roberto Pasquale Casula

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Cardillo, G., Carbone, L., Carleo, F., Forcione, A.R., Martelli, M. (2012). Talc Poudrage. In: Inderbitzi, R., Schmid, R., Melfi, F., Casula, R. (eds) Minimally Invasive Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11861-6_17

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