Etiologic Considerations of Nonspecific Pleuritis
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Etiologic Considerations of Nonspecific Pleuritis
Twenty-three patients with nonspecific pleuritis were studied to determine clinical outcome. After a mean follow-up period of 6 months (1 to 36 months), a diagnosis was reached in 17 patients, while 6 patients remained unknown. The causes of the nonspecific pleuritis diagnosed on initial pleural biopsy were tuberculosis (11 patients, 48%), neoplasm (2 patients, 8.7%), parapneumonic effusion (1 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1226-3303,2005-6648
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.1991.6.2.58