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Drug-induced pleural effusions
R P Byrd1, C J Morris, T M Roy
1Division of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY 40204.
The Journal of the Kentucky Medical Association
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
Systematic analysis of pleural fluid, in conjunction with the patient's clinical presentation, should allow the clinician to arrive at the correct diagnosis in approximately 90% of cases. An awareness that some commonly used pharmaceutical agents can cause pleural effusion may help the clinician recognize the pathogenesis of some effusions whose cause is less obvious.