Makale Arama

At times, pleural fluid is milky or turbid. When the milkiness or turbidity persists after cetrifugation it is almost always due to high lipid content of the pleural. High levels of lipid accumulate in the pleural fluid in two situations: Chylous and chyliform pleural effusions. It is important to differentiate these two conditions because the prognosis and management are completely different. The most common causes of the nontraumatic chylothorax are malignancies. We report a 60 year old female patient diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s Iymphoma with huge mediastinal Iymphadenopathies and bilateral chylothorax. We treated her with chemoterapy.

The Incidence of Pulmonary Involvement in Leu-kemic and Lymphoma Patients. In this study, the prevalence and type of intro-torasic involvement of 80 cases with malignant lym-phoma (45 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 35 Hodgkin dis-ease) and 46 cases with leukaemia were evaluated retrospectively between 1988 and 1994 in Selguk University Department of Internal Medicine. The pulmonary involvement has been found in 28 (35 %) of 80 lymphoma and 6 (15,2 %) of 46 leukaemia cas-es. Mediastinal hilar lymphadenopathy was the com-monest manifestation followed by pleural lesions.