Summary: Histiocytic pleural effusion: the strong clue to malignancy.

Summary: This review of the literature assessed the effectiveness of medical thoracoscopy in patients with complicated parapneumonic effusions (fluid in and around the lungs) and empyema (lung infection).

Summary: A retrospective study on the combined biomarkers and ratios in serum and pleural fluid to distinguish the multiple types of pleural effusion.

Summary: Proteus empyema as a rare complication from an infected renal cyst, a case report.

Summary: Complicated pneumonia in children.

Summary: This study presented experience with the safety and effectiveness of intrapleural tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and dornase alfa (DNase) for the treatment of pleural space infection.

Summary: This study considered patients with pleural infection (infection of the thin, fluid-filled spaces in the lungs) in order to analyze the safety and effectiveness of early medical thoracoscopy (diagnostic procedure involving minimally invasive surgical insertion of a thin, lighted scope through the chest; MT) versus intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy (insertion of a chest tube to dissolve materials i...