[Chronic bilateral pleural effusion, ungual dystrophies and diffuse lymphoedema by systemic hypoplasia (author's...

To chronic pleuropathies of lymphatic origin were recently added clinical data of a systemic hypoplasia of a malformative origin (Samman-White syndrome). The association of lymphoedema in lower limbs, of yellow nail and other changes brought by lymphatic disorders enabled to attribute some inexhaustible pleural effusion to this syndrome which can develop in the adult, probably through the help of microtrauma or of oligosymptomatic infections. Immunological changes can accompany this affection and promote the subsequent start of malignant hemopathies; after a study done on the two personal observations reported here, the problem is discussed.