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Ultrasound is cost-effective, portable, real-time, and safe. Ease of use and training makes it an ideal tool to increase the accuracy and safety for many thoracic procedures. Ultrasound is standard of care for pleural procedures such as thoracentesis and chest tube (including indwelling pleural catheter (IPC)) placement as well as for pulmonary procedures such as percutaneous needle biopsy and medical thoracoscopy. In this chapter we will describe the techniques and evidence regarding the use of ultrasound to guide pleural and pulmonary procedures.

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Brueder, A.P., Shojaee, S., Argento, A.C. (2020). Ultrasound-Guided Procedures. In: Feletti, F., Malta, B., Aliverti, A. (eds) Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93055-8_12

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