Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 8-2002. A 56-year-old woman with a persistent left-sided pleural effusion

N Engl J Med. 2002 Mar 14;346(11):843-50. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc020008.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adipose Tissue / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Drainage
  • Exudates and Transudates / chemistry
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Lymphocytes
  • Middle Aged
  • Pleura / pathology*
  • Pleural Effusion / diagnosis
  • Pleural Effusion / etiology*
  • Pleural Effusion / therapy
  • Rheumatic Diseases / complications
  • Rheumatic Diseases / immunology
  • Rheumatic Diseases / pathology*
  • Thoracoscopy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis