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Causes of Pleural Effusions
#Diagnosis #Pulmonary #PleuralEffusions #Differential #Table #Transudative #Exudative
Causes of Pleural ... Diagnosis #Pulmonary #PleuralEffusions
Pleural Effusions
#Diagnosis #PleuralEffusion #Lights #Criteria #Transudative #Exudative #Cholesterol #Sensitivity #Specificity
Pleural Effusions ... #Diagnosis #PleuralEffusion
POCUS Pleural Effusion #Clinical #EM #PCC #Radiology #POCUS #PleuralEffusion #Pleural #Effusion
POCUS Pleural Effusion ... Radiology #POCUS #PleuralEffusion ... #Pleural #Effusion
Light's Criteria

Medical Nugget on Light's Criteria for diagnosis of Exudative Pleural Effusion in adults and children.
diagnosis of Exudative Pleural ... #Respiratory #PleuralEffusion
Pleural effusion is seen in:
1. Pulmonary edema
2. Lymphangitic spread of carcinoma - often unilateral
3. Tuberculosis
4. Lymphangiomyomatosis
Pleural effusion ... Radiology #Pulmonary #Pleural ... #Effusion #PleuralEffusion
 "Ultrasonography of the right hypochondrium visualizing a pleural effusion (asterisk)" - McMaster Textbook of Internal
visualizing a pleural ... Medicine #PleuralEffusion
Pleural effusion visualized as an anechoic fluid collection located cephalad to the arrows. #Clinical #EM #Radiology
Pleural effusion ... Lung #Sagittal #PleuralEffusion
Pleural fluid
It takes about 200-300 ml of fluid before it comes visible on an CXR (figure).
About
Pleural fluid It ... About 5 liters of pleural ... Pulmonary #CXR #PleuralEffusion ... #Pleural #Effusion
On a lateral image of CXR effusion of > 75 ml could be visible- where there
least 175 ml of pleural ... doc #Hidden #PleuralEffusion
Pleural effusion is bilateral in 70% of cases of CHF.
When unilateral, it is slightly more often
Pleural effusion ... least 175 ml of pleural ... If pleural effusion ... has bilateral pleural ... #Effusion #PleuralEffusion