Tuberculous pleural effusions: Ultrasonic diagnosis

✍ Scribed by Okan Akhan; Figen Basaran Demirkazik; Mustafa N Özmen; Ferhun Balkanci; Seref Özkara; Lötfi Cöplö; Salih Emri; Aytekin Besim

• Book ID: 102887863
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 623 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870200708

✦ Synopsis

Twenty patients with tuberculous pleural effusions were studied with ul- trasonography. In 18 patients, ultrasonography demonstrated regular pleural thickening which was less than 1 cm except in 1 case. In 4 cases there were a few pleural nodules, whereas in 2 cases the pleural surface showed small nodularity. The latter finding may be diagnostic for a tuberculous etiology. Eighteen patients had multiple, delicate, mobile septations in the effusions, and a lattice-like appearance had formed in 6 cases. Computed tomography was obtained in 7 cases, and pleural thickening was demonstrated in 6 of them. Ultrasonography is a useful imaging modality in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy. Indexing Words: Tuberculosis, pleural 6 Pleural effusion * Computed tomography -X-ray