Revisiting tuberculous pleurisy: pleural fluid characteristics and diagnostic yield of mycobacterial culture in an endemic area

BACKGROUND: Tuberculous pleurisy is traditionally indicated by extreme lymphocytosis in pleural fluid and low yield of effusion culture. However, there is considerable inconsistency among previous study results. In addition, these data should be updated due to early effusion studies and advances in...

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Autores principales: Ruan, Sheng-Yuan, Chuang, Yu-Chung, Wang, Jann-Yuan, Lin, Jou-Wei, Chien, Jung-Yien, Huang, Chun-Ta, Kuo, Yao-Wen, Lee, Li-Na, Yu, Chong-Jen J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
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Tuberculosis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22436167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201363

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22436167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201363

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