Pseudochylothorax without pleural thickening: Time to reconsider pathogenesis?

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1144-1147

  Wrightson, John M ^a   Stanton, Andrew E ^a   Maskell, Nicholas A ^b   Davies, Robert J O ^a,c   Lee, Y C Gary ^a,d  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA THICKENING; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCHYLOTHORAX; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 70350096393     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-0445     Document Type: Article

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