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3536342

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-1-6
pubmed:abstractText
Forty-eight patients with pleural effusions who had sonographically directed thoracocentesis were evaluated retrospectively for radiologic findings, pleural fluid chemistries, and outcome. Loculation was found to be a radiologic marker of diagnostic and prognostic significance. The presence of loculations correlated with exudative pleural fluid chemistries, but no radiologic finding was specific for empyema. "Extreme" pleural fluid chemistries were associated with loculation, but not with empyema. Patients with loculated effusions had larger effusions, longer hospitalizations, and more frequent tube thoracostomy procedures than patients with nonloculated effusions. Light's criteria for tube thoracostomy were found to be unreliable in patients with loculated parapneumonic effusions or in patients treated with prolonged antibiotic therapy prior to thoracocentesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0012-3692
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
90
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
852-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
The prognostic value of loculations in parapneumonic pleural effusions.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article