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Pleural Fluid Analysis

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Amit Chopra *
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Kurt Hu
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David Feller‐Kopman
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Marc A. Judson
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Establishing the cause of a pleural effusion can be challenging. Analysis of pleural fluid (PF) is a powerful tool to determine the cause of a pleural effusion. Surprisingly, despite the diagnostic power of PF analysis (PFA), it is often underused. This review provides a practical framework to maximize the diagnostic potential of the PFA. We describe the role of a PFA in establishing the cause of a pleural effusion. We also discuss challenges and limitations of PFA.

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Chest cover
Chest
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8.6
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Organization

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albany medical center
Scholars:
101
Papers: 53
Citations: 1
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dartmouth-hitchcock medical center
Scholars:
141
Papers: 73
Citations: 0
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medical college of wisconsin
Scholars:
1.7W
Papers: 1.3W
Citations: 9
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Cited Papers

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errBielsa, Silvia; Porcel, Jose M.; Castellote, Jose; Mas, Estela; Esquerda, Aureli; Light, Richard W.
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Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection
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IF7.7
err2011-04-01
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errMenzies, Sarah M.; Rahman, Najib M.; Wrightson, John M.; Davies, Helen E.; Shorten, Robert; Gillespie, Stephen H.; Davies, Christopher W. H.; Maskell, Nick A.; Jeffrey, Andrew A.; Lee, Y. C. Gary; Davies, Robert J. O.
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Pleural Fluid Analysis
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errJosé M. Porcel; Richard W. Light
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Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure
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errSimon C. Chakko; Stephen H. Caldwell; Peter P. Sforza
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err2016-07-01
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errBintcliffe, Oliver J.; Hooper, Clare E.; Rider, Iain J.; Finn, Rhian S.; Morley, Anna J.; Zahan-Evans, Natalie; Harvey, John E.; Skyrme-Jones, Andrew P.; Maskell, Nick A.
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Adequacy of pleural fluid cytology for comprehensive molecular analysis of lung adenocarcinoma: Experience of a large health-care system
err2022-02-04
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errSiddhartha Dilip Dalvi; Karen Chau; Sujata Sajjan; Baidarbhi Chakraborty; Priyanka Karam; Seema Khutti; Cecilia Gimenez; Kasturi Das
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