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Rev Ig Bacteriol Virusol Parazitol Epidemiol Pneumoftiziol Pneumoftiziol
; 26(1): 43-8, 1977.
Article
in Romanian
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-191891
ABSTRACT
A study was carried out on 64 cases of pleural exsudates, i.e. 23 of neoplastic origin, 13 tuberculous, 10 with various etiologies and 8 the cause of which could not be determined. In all cases pleural biopsy puncture was performed, once or several times, the histologic examination confirming 80% of the cases of tuberculosis and 40% of the cancer cases. Biochemical methods are orientative, their significance increasing when the other probability tests give convergent results.