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BACKGROUND
Pleural effusion is rare and includes several disease entities in the neonatal period. The aim of this study was to investigate the etiology, management, and outcome of neonatal pleural effusions.
METHODS
We retrospectively collected all neonates who were admitted to the neonatal
A 79 year-old woman with disseminated ovarian cancer and recurring pleural effusions, had thoracocentesis performed with drainage of purulent pleural fluid (plf) after preceding symptoms of pneumonia. Pleural empyema was suspected. However, a plf-pH-measurement of 7.3 made this diagnose less likely.
A patient is described with chylothorax after harvesting the left internal thoracic artery for coronary artery bypass surgery. Conservative treatment with a medium chain triglycerides diet and tube thoracostomy was not only unsuccessful, but also resulted in the complications of malnutrition and
OBJECTIVE
To assess whether pleural fluid analysis (PFA) can confidently diagnose tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE).
METHODS
PFA of 548 TPEs was performed between January 1991 and December 2011. The control group consisted of patients with malignant PE (MPE), complicated parapneumonic/empyema
Chyloptysis is a very rare clinical finding. We describe a 44-year-old man who presented with cough and milky-white sputum. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed white sputum, which originated from the right B(6) bronchus. The finding of elevated triglyceride levels in his sputum led to the diagnosis of