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1 have chest discomfort. Page 1783 2 Q When was he diagnosed to have mesothelioma? 3 A The next procedure was done on him -- he was 4 hospitalized November 17th and November 20, 1992. 5 They did a type of procedure called video assisted 6 thoracoscopy. It is a relatively new procedure and 7 very good procedure because it decreases morbidity, in 8 which you put fairly large catheters between the ribs 9 just like the thoracentesis and you can suck out the 10 fluid, and put a catheter in there that has a camera 11 on it and you can look inside of the chest cavity, and 12 the person who is doing this thoracoscopy can examine 13 that. 14 And they did that on November 20th, and they 15 saw Mr. Grewe had these nodules of tissues on his 16 parietal pleura and they biopsied those, and it was 17 from that tissue that the diagnosis of mesothelioma 18 was made. 19 Q Now, is that appearance of nodular 20 thickening on the pleura, is that consistent with 21 mesothelioma?