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Bilateral pleural effusion due to malignant mesothelioma, diagnosed by means of immunostaining
G P Mannes1, A S Gouw, P E Postmus
1Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.
The European Respiratory Journal
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report a patient who presented himself with a bilateral pleural effusion. Histology proved that this was caused by a malignant pleural mesothelioma. Immunostaining and DNA-flow cytometry confirmed the diagnosis. The usefulness of these rather new diagnostic techniques is discussed.