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KMID : 0383819830300020092
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
1983 Volume.30 No. 2 p.92 ~ p.98
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Clinical study of pleural effusion in 62 cases
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Moon Dong-Kyu
Lee Ki-Heon
Yon Kuk-Won
Lee Soo-Yang
Kim Yae-Won
Shun Duk-Jae
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Abstract
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A retrospective clinical study was done on 62 cases of pleural effusion admitted to Kang-Nam & Han-Gang Sung-Shim Hospital from Jan. 1979 to Aug. 1981.
1) The patients were comprised of 34 males and 28 females and male was predominant. the age distribution was in the range from 17 to 76 and the peak incidence was 20 decade(37.1%).
2) The chief complaints of pleural effusion was noted as dyspnea(71.0%), chest pain, coughing and fever.
3) Leukocyte (Including different count). protein and LDH in pleural fluid were non-specific finding in the etiological diagnosis of pleurisy.
4) Location of pleural effusion was noted as right side(53.3%), left side(45.2%) and both side(1.6%).
5) Amount of pleural effusion or the chest X-ray wart moderate(41.9%), minimum and maximum in order names. But the amount of thoracentesis was not associated minimum and maximum statically.
6) On the pleural biopsy, the tuberculous granuloma was most commonly 41.9% of all 문동규cases, non-specific inflammatory reaction 38.7% and malignancy 9.7%
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