Assessment of pleuritis

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Key articles

Lee RW, Hodgson LE, Jackson MB, et al. Problem based review: pleuritic chest pain. Acute Med. 2012;11(3):172-82. Abstract

English JC, Leslie KO. Pathology of pleura. Clin Chest Med. 2006 Jun;27(2):157-80. Abstract

Maskell NA, Batt S, Hedley EL, et al. The bacteriology of pleural infection by genetic and standard methods and its mortality significance. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Oct 1;174(7):817-23.Full text  Abstract

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