Analysis of pleural effusions in acute pulmonary embolism: Radiological and pleural fluid data from 230 patients

Respirology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 234-239

  Porcel, José M ^a   Madroñero, Ana B ^a   Pardina, Marina ^a   Vives, Manuel ^b   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Light, Richard W ^c  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Division of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Exudate; Pleural disease; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXUDATE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFARCTION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PERFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846904035     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2006.01026.x     Document Type: Article

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