Table 4. Histopathologic diagnoses and their relationship to pleural fluid characteristic and post-thoracoscopic lung expansion.

	Pleural Biopsy Histopathologic diagnosis
	Metastatic Adeno Ca	T B	Metastatic NSCLC	Invasive Adeno Ca	Acute-onc hronic pleuritis	Carcinomatous deposits
	(n = 8)	(n = 2)	(n = 1)	(n = 1)	(n = 1)	(n = 1)
Pleural fluid characteristics
Serous
Straw color	0	0	0	0	1	0
Hemorrhagic	0	2	1	0	0	1
	8	0	0	1	0	0
Post-procedure lung re-expansion
Incomplete	6	0	1	1	0	1
Complete	2	2	0	0	1	0