Tuberculous pleural effusions: Ultrasonic diagnosis | Zendy

Akhan Okan | Zendy; Demirkazik Figen Basaran | Zendy; Özmen Mustafa N | Zendy; Balkanci Ferhun | Zendy; Özkara Seref | Zendy; Cöplö Lötfi | Zendy; Emri Salih | Zendy; Besim Aytekin | Zendy

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Tuberculous pleural effusions: Ultrasonic diagnosis

Author(s) -

Akhan Okan,

Demirkazik Figen Basaran,

Özmen Mustafa N,

Balkanci Ferhun,

Özkara Seref,

Cöplö Lötfi,

Emri Salih,

Besim Aytekin

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

journal of clinical ultrasound

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272

H-Index - 61

eISSN - 1097-0096

pISSN - 0091-2751

DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870200708

Subject(s) - medicine , pleural thickening , ultrasonography , radiology , etiology , pleural effusion , pleurisy , thickening , computed tomography , pleural fluid , tuberculosis , pathology , chemistry , polymer science

Twenty patients with tuberculous pleural effusions were studied with ultrasonography. 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.

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