Chest mass with pleurisy.

A Case of Bullet Wound of the Chest Followed by Pleurisy with Effusion

Pulmonary sarcoidosis with associated bloody pleurisy.

A 64-year-old man was admitted to our hospital complaining of non-productive cough and right chest pain. Chest radiographs showed bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, diffuse granular nodules and right pleural effusion. Serum angiotensin-II-converting enzyme and lysozyme levels were elevated. Since thoracentesis indicated bloody pleurisy, video-assisted thoracoscopy was performed and revealed multi...

Cooperation between accessory cells and T lymphocytes in patients with tuberculous pleurisy.

We studied interleukin 1 (IL-1) activity of pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes obtained from ten patients with tuberculous pleurisy and ten patients with malignant pleurisy, using purified protein derivative (PPD) as a stimulating agent. Tuberculous pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes tended to produce higher IL-1 activity than malignant pleural fluid ...

[Surgical treatment of chest wall tuberculosis].

Of 5000 patients with skeleton tuberculosis, 85 also had chest tuberculosis (= 1.7%). Chest tuberculosis in most cases begins with local pleural tuberculosis originating from a former moist pleurisy. The 5th rib is preferably involved, occasionally several ribs simultaneously. The gradual development of the abscess of the thoracic wall is mostly not recognized. Abscess incision only does not le...

Tuberculous pleurisy is more common in AIDS than in non-AIDS patients with tuberculosis.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence, clinical features, and treatment of tuberculous pleurisy in AIDS patients. METHODS We reviewed all cases of pleural tuberculosis in AIDS patients in South Carolina from 1988 through 1994. Clinical findings, test results, treatment, and outcome were analyzed. MAIN RESULTS Twenty-two (11%) of the 202 AIDS patients with tuberculosis had pleural involveme...