Thoracentesis is a procedure in which a doctor uses a needle and catheter to remove excess fluid from the space between your lungs and the wall of your chest, known as the pleural space. You might ...

Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of ...

THE great value of x-ray examination of the chest in tuberculosis case-finding programs is beyond a doubt. Bloch and his associates 1 in 1938 stated the strong position of roentgenology: "Failure to ...