Infectious pleural diseases

Szczepan Cofta

ISSN: 1505-8409

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Infectious pleural diseases

Szczepan Cofta

Przew Lek 2006; 2: 71-73

Online publish date: 2006/03/31

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Pleural diseases are still very common. Tuberculous pleurisy was a leading cause of pleural exsudates in the past in developed regions but now the non-specific bacteria are the commonest reasons of the pathology. This work is a proposition to update our knowledge of infectious pleural diseases. The proposition of diagnostic strategy and differential diagnosing were proposed as the informations about the pathophysiology of pleural fluid.

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Infectious pleural diseases

Szczepan Cofta

effusion, empyema, infection, parapneumonic, pleura