Bilateral tuberculous pleural effusions with markedly different characteristics

Chest

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 849-850

  Murin, Susan ^a,b,c   Moritz, Ernest ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly pleura; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030459908     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.3.849     Document Type: Article

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