[Chemiluminometry in the differential diagnosis of exudative pleurisy]

The method of chemiluminometry was used to examine the citrate blood plasma and pleural exudate of 186 patients with exudative pleurisy of tuberculous, parapneumonic and tumour etiology. It was shown that the proposed method is highly informative, simple in realization, objective in evaluation of obtained data. The method enables in 24 hours to gain information on the nature of pleural lesions.