Diagnosing pleural effusion: Moving beyond transudate-exudate separation [10]

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 942-943

  Lee, Y C Gary ^a   Davies, Robert J O ^a   Light, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; EXUDATE; HUMAN; LETTER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TRANSUDATE;

EID: 33947421703     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-2847     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Light RW, Macgregor MI, Luchsinger PC, et al. Pleural effusions: the diagnostic separation of transudates and exudates. Ann Intern Med 1972; 77:507-513
2. Romero S, Martinez A, Hernandez L, et al. Light's criteria revisited: consistency and comparison with new proposed alternative criteria for separating pleural transudates from exudates. Respiration 2000; 67:18-23
3. Lee YCG, Light RW. Future directions. In: Light RW, Lee YCG, eds. Textbook of pleural diseases. London, UK: Arnold Press, 2003; 536-541