Milky Pleural Fluid

Milky Pleural Fluid.

Massive milky pleural effusion.

To cite: Aju R, Chaubey VK. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-203105 DESCRIPTION A 53-year-old man with a history of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) presented with worsening shortness of breath. He was diagnosed with bulky grade III follicular lymphoma 5 years ago and was in remission after receiving eight cycles of chemotherapy. The chest X-ray r...

Diagnostic imaging of small amounts of pleural fluid: pleural effusion vs. physiologic pleural fluid.

The aim of this article is to present an overview of our 10 years clinical research work and early clinical experience with small pleural effusions. Small amounts of pleural fluid are severely difficult to identify with imaging methods (chest x-rays and ultrasound). Nevertheless, it may be an important finding, sometimes leading to a definitive diagnosis of pleural carcinomatosis, infection or ...

Evaluating pleural fluid.

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Ada in Tuberculous Pleural Fluid

Adenosine deaminase activity (ADA) was assayed in pleural fluid and serum of 42 subjects with pleural effusion. Twenty-nine of them had TB pleural effusion and the remaining 13 had pleural effusion due to non-TB respiratory diseases. Serum adenosine deaminase activity were also measured in 32 pulmonary tuberculosis patients without pleural effusion and equal numbers of healthy controls without ...