Background: Thoracoscopy under local anesthesia is widely performed for the diagnosis of malignancies and infectious diseases. With the aging of the population, it is increasingly performed in elderly patients, but there are still few reports on its efficacy and safety. We aimed to determine whether there were any differences in the efficacy or safety of thoracoscopy under local anesthesia between elderly (75≤) and nonelderly patients (75>).
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