Clinical evaluation reveals that shallow pleural puncture angles increase pneumothorax risk during lung biopsy while dwell time does not, indicating sample collection need not be restricted.
Longer dwell times do not correlate with pneumothorax and should not influence the decision to obtain more biopsy samples. A shallow pleural puncture angle may increase the pneumothorax rate.
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