Introduction: Diagnosing the etiology of pleural effusion is sometimes a challenging medical problem, and there is an urgent need to identify new fluid markers to differentiate malignant from non malignant pieuraI effusion. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of VEGF, glucose, LOH, and protein level in diagnosing of pIeurai effusion. Methods: Design ofthis study was obs…
Methods: We performed a cross sectional, retrospective study in Persahabatan Hospital. We used medical Introduction: Malignant pleural effusions (MPE) are caused most commonly by carcinomas of the breast, lung, gastrointestinal tract or ovary and by lymphomas. In male patients about half of malignant effusions are caused by lung cancer. With lung cancer, a malignant pleural effusion may be the …
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a common method of creating copies of creating copies of specific fragments of DNA PCR rapidly amplifies a single DNA molecule into many billions of molecules and can be detected with visualization. Diagnostic of pleural effusion caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still a clinical prili were oblem especially of low sensitivity in conventional methods. To …