• Stavros Anevlavis, Csaba Varga, Tse Hoi Nam, Raymond Wong Chun Man, Artemios Demetriou, Nitin Jain, Anthony Lanfranco, and Marios E Froudarakis.
• Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Evros, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
• Clin Respir J. 2019 Feb 1; 13 (2): 73-81.

AbstractThoracoscopy in the endoscopy suite, has a high diagnostic yield of undiagnosed pleural effusions with minimal and mild complications. Whereas relatively minimal invasive techniques, such as thoracentesis, image-guided pleural biopsy or blind pleural biopsy, can yield sufficient cell or tissue material to establish the diagnosis of the underlying condition, more definite invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedure, such as thoracoscopy, may be required for accurate sampling and diagnosis, and further provide real-time treatment options in same procedure. If thoracoscopy is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis is a fact in case. The current review aims to provide informations on thoracoscopy indications in benign pleural diseases according to up to date publications.© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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