Differentiating tuberculous pleuritis from other exudative lymphocytic pleural effusions
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A decision tree for differentiating tuberculous from malignant pleural effusions.
OBJECTIVE To improve physicians' ability to discriminate tuberculous from malignant pleural effusions through a simple clinical algorithm that avoids pleural biopsy. DESIGN We retrospectively compared the clinical and pleural fluid features of 238 adults with pleural effusion who satisfied diagnostic criteria for tuberculosis (n=64) or malignancy (n=174) at one academic center (derivation coh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Palliative Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2224-5820,2224-5839
DOI: 10.21037/apm-19-394