Update: Management of the difficult to diagnose pleural effusion

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-46

  Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Needle biopsy of the pleura; Pleural effusion; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANAMNESIS; CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EXUDATE; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIQUORRHEA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOSCOPY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; UREMIA; YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME;

EID: 0037252017     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00045413-200301000-00007     Document Type: Review

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