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