Evaluating pleural effusions: How should you go about finding the cause?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 39-48

  Rubins, Jeffrey B ^a   Colice, Gene L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DANTROLENE; HYDRALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYSERGIDE; METHYSERGIDE MALEATE; NITROFURANTOIN; PROCAINAMIDE; PROCARBAZINE; QUINIDINE;

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXUDATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0032917570     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1999.05.1.736     Document Type: Article

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