ReviewIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2019
Black pleural effusion: etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
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- Etiology, pathological characteristics, and clinical management of black pleural effusion: A systematic review.Medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Pleural Metastatic Melanoma with Refractory Hemorrhagic Effusion: A Case Report.Cancer management and research · 2026Article
- Purple Pleural Effusion due toCase reports in medicine · 2025Article
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- Black pleural effusion caused by a pancreaticopleural fistula secondary to chronic alcoholic pancreatitis exacerbation accompanying COVID-19.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
- Three cases of black pleural effusion.Respiratory medicine case reports · 2023Article
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- Black pleural effusion caused by a pancreaticopleural fistula associated with autoimmune pancreatitis: A case report.Medicine · 2022Article
- "Burgundy wine" pleural effusion: An unusual manifestation of acute bacterial empyema.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- Black pleural effusion: an unusual presentation of metastatic melanoma diagnosed by medical thoracoscopy.Respirology case reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionBlack pleural effusion (BPE) is an extremely rare entity. This review aims to increase the attention of thoracic physicians and surgeons to the differential diagnosis and management of unfamiliar cases with BPE.
methodsSearching MEDLINE, Pubmed, and Web of Science databases with the words of "black pleural effusion" in title/abstract yielded 86 articles relevant to the topic of the review. There were only 20 case reports describing BPE with different underlying causes.
resultsBPE may occur as a result of fungal
conclusionsBPE is not a common clinical condition which may hide a critical disease including invasive pulmonary
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