Patient with bilateral pleural effusion: Are the findings the same in each fluid?

Chest

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 167-176

  Kalomenidis, Ioannis ^a   Rodriguez, Michael ^b   Barnette, Randal ^b   Gupta, Rita ^b   Hawthorne, Michael ^b   Parkes, Kenneth B ^b   Light, Richard W ^b  

^a SAINT THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bilateral; Glucose; Lactate dehydrogenase; Nucleated cell count; Pleural effusion; Protein; Thoracentesis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUTROPHIL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037822201     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.1.167     Document Type: Article

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