A Rare Cause of Exudative Pleural Effusion in a Female

Yellow nail syndrome is an extremely rare syndrome that presents with a clinical triad of thickened yellow nails, lymphedema, and recurring pulmonary manifestations (pleural effusion, chronic cough, or bronchiectasis), usually in the population above the age of 50 years. We describe a case of yellow...

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Autores principales: Abuserewa, Sherif T, Esperti, Shawn, Golden, Thaddeus, Duff, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367834
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16237
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author Abuserewa, Sherif T
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description Yellow nail syndrome is an extremely rare syndrome that presents with a clinical triad of thickened yellow nails, lymphedema, and recurring pulmonary manifestations (pleural effusion, chronic cough, or bronchiectasis), usually in the population above the age of 50 years. We describe a case of yellow nail syndrome in a 48-year-old lady who presented with the typical classical triad of this syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-83450192021-08-07 A Rare Cause of Exudative Pleural Effusion in a Female Abuserewa, Sherif T Esperti, Shawn Golden, Thaddeus Duff, Richard Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Yellow nail syndrome is an extremely rare syndrome that presents with a clinical triad of thickened yellow nails, lymphedema, and recurring pulmonary manifestations (pleural effusion, chronic cough, or bronchiectasis), usually in the population above the age of 50 years. We describe a case of yellow nail syndrome in a 48-year-old lady who presented with the typical classical triad of this syndrome. Cureus 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8345019/ /pubmed/34367834 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16237 Text en Copyright © 2021, Abuserewa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Rare Cause of Exudative Pleural Effusion in a Female
title_sort rare cause of exudative pleural effusion in a female
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345019/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367834
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16237
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