The 40 patients who admitted with chief complaints of pleural effusion and were performed closed thoracostomy and pleural biopsy at the same time with only one incision during the period from Mar, 1990. To Feb. 1992.
@ES At the department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, HanYang University were reviewed retrospectively and the results are as follows:
@EN 1. The age of patients ranged from 16 to 73-years old(Mean 44.3-years old). The peak incidence was fifth decade(25%) and the next was third decades(22.5%).
2. 28 patients were male and 12 patients were female with male preponderance(More than 2 times).
3. The etiologic of pleura effusion were 25 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis(62.5%), 8 cases of empyema(20%), and 7 cases of malignant diseases(17.5%).
4. The most common chief complaints were dyspnea(21 cases:29.2%), chest discomfort(16 cases:22.2%), and the coughing with sputum(12 cases:16.7%).
5. The duration of symptom were varied from 3 days to lyear(Mean 3.2 weeks).
6. The amounts of drained pleural effusion after closed thoracostomy were ranged from 100ml to 2,400ml(Mean 650ml), but the amounts in case of malignant pleural effusion were varied from 400ml to 1,700ml(Mean 950ml).
7. The diagnostic rate was 84.6% with routine examination of tuberculous pleural effusion(Lymphocyte predominance) and the same rate was acquired by pleural biopsy.
8. The diagnostic rate by pleural biopsy in case of malignant pleural effusion was 57.1% and lower than tuberculous pleural effusion.
9. The etiology of malignant pleura effusion were squamous cell carcinoma(3 cases:42.8%), adenocarcinoma(2 cases:28.6%) and metastatic breast cancer(1 case:14.3%).(Korean J Thoracic Cardiovas Surg 1994; 27:298-302)
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