Bilateral massive pleural effusions caused by uremic pleuritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 646-649

  Yoshii, Chiharu ^a   Morita, Shiho ^a   Tokunaga, Masaki ^a   Yatera, Kazuhiro ^a   Hayashi, Toshinari ^a   Imanaga, Tomotoshi ^a   Segawa, Kayoko ^a   Wang, Ke Yong ^a   Kido, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effusion; Fatal; Fibrinous pleuritis; Hemodialysis; Renal failure; Uremia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UREMIA;

FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURISY; RENAL DIALYSIS; UREMIA;

EID: 0035407484     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.646     Document Type: Article

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