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Disease Information for Pleural effusion, malignant
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Apical impulse absent
- Chest Pain
- Breath Sounds Decreased
- Chest pain/non-cardiac
- Consolidation left base/signs
- Consolidation right base/on exam
- Cough
- Distant breath sounds
- Dullness to percussion lung base
- Dyspnea
- Dyspnea on exertion
- Fremitus Localized Decrease
- Intercostal spaces filled out
- Localized dullness to percussion
- Lung signs/abnormality
- Pleuritic chest pain
- Rapid Breathing
- Shortness of breath/SOB
- Signs of consolidation/chest
- Signs of pleural effusion
- Splinting on breathing/sign
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Unilateral Absent Breath Sounds
- Tracheal deviation/shift
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Presentation/Pleural Effusions Recurrent
- Disease Progression
- Course/Chronic disorder
- Course/Chronic only
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- Microbiology & Serology Findings
- Microlab/Pleural fluid culture/sterile
- Microlab/Sterile pleural exudate
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- PLEURAL Exudate
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- PLEURAL Glucose
- PLEURAL pH
- SPAG/Serum Albumin-Pleural Gradient (Lab)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- PLEURAL Erythrocytes
- PLEURAL LDH
- PLEURAL Leukocytes
- PLEURAL Protein
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- Thoracentesis/Abnormality
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- Atelectasis, pulmonary
- Pleural Effusion
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- Pleurisy
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- Definition
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Presence of fluid in the pleural cavity as a complication of malignant disease. Malignant pleural effusions often contain actual malignant cells.
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