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Abstract
This report describes a patient who developed transient pleuritic chest pain, fever,
wound induration, and a sterile pleural effusion eight days after thoracotomy. Thoracentesis
yielded sterile fluid which contained many mononuclear leukocytes and many starch
granules. Control pleural fluid from asymptomatic postthoracotomy patients did not
contain starch. These circumstances are precisely analogous to those in starch peritonitis.
We suggest that this patient's symptoms were due to starch pleuritis.
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References
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Accepted:
November 16,
1973
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© 1974 Published by Elsevier Inc.
