Chest
Volume 130, Issue 4, Supplement, October 2006, Page 244S
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Poster Presentations
PRE- AND POSTTHORACENTESIS CHEST RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS DO NOT PREDICT ABNORMAL PLEURAL ELASTANCE

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PURPOSE: Identification of abnormal lung expansion by measurment of pleural elastance is useful in evaluating patients with malignant effusion, suspected trapped lung, and post-thoracentesis pneumothorax. We sought to identify chest radiographic findings that would predict abnormal pleural elastance.

METHODS: In a blinded fashion, we reviewed and scored the radiographs of patients who had pleural manometry as well as pre and post-thoracentesis radiographs. Effusions were scored on a scale of 1-4

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