Cytologic diagnosis of syphilitic pleuri
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Paul Zaharopoulos; Jick Wong
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We report on a case of a 68-yr-old man with secondary syphilis diagnosed by biopsy of skin lesions, who concomitantly suffered from left lower lobe pneumonia with associated pleuritis. Cytologic examination of the pleural fluid was diagnostic of syphilis, not only by the characteristic cytomorpholog