The Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 309-319

  Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ASBESTOS; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BROMOCRIPTINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; DANTROLENE; DAPSONE; DIURETIC AGENT; ERGOT ALKALOID; GLICLAZIDE; HYDRALAZINE; ISONIAZID; ISOTRETINOIN; METHOTREXATE; METHYSERGIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MITOMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PERGOLIDE; PHENYTOIN; PROCAINAMIDE; PROCARBAZINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; SIMVASTATIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ASCITES; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRESSLER SYNDROME; EXUDATE; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUORRHEA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MYCOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA TUMOR; PLEURISY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACOSCOPY; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; UREMIA; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME;

BRONCHOSCOPY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 33646558964     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2005.12.002     Document Type: Review

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