Etiology of Pleural Effusions: Analysis of More than 3,000 Consecutive Thoracenteses;Etiología del derrame pleural: Análisis de más de 3.000 toracocentesis consecutivas

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 161-165

  Porcel, José M ^a   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Vives, Manuel ^b   Bielsa, Silvia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Heart failure; Pleural effusion; Pneumonia; Thoracentesis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CYTOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORACOCENTESIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

AGED; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84899981828     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: 15792129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arbres.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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