The Role of Thoracine Teases in the Characterization of Pleural Effluence

Eosinophilic pleural effusions definitely include drug-induced and other pulmonary infarctions as well as parasitic diseases. CT can also be helpful in patients where there's an underlying malignancy or some sort of anatomic abnormality or pleural disease that's suspected that's driving the effusions. In the cases of suspected malignancy, it really might be helpful to drain the pleural space first before a CT.