Meigs' syndrome presenting as haemorrhagic pleural effusion

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-255

  Agaba, E I ^a   Ekwempu, C C ^a   Ugoya, S O ^a   Echejoh, G O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Meigs' syndrome; Ovarietomy; Pleural effusion, haemorrhagic; Thecoma fibroma; Tuberculosis, misdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOTHORAX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MENORRHAGIA; MESOTHELIUM CELL; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PALLOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURAL PAIN; THECOMA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MEIGS SYNDROME; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 38049146290     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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