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Pleural effusion
How to understand from a chest usg report, that if a pleural effusion needs to be drained or not , any measure of quantification? How much ?
Does any one knows
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Dr. Santosh Jha
Respiratory Medicine
11 yrs exp
Delhi
usually already done in usg reports by radiologist..they do quantify ,further drainage to be done is decided by treating physician and that also depends on various factors!
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Dr. Sunil Kumar
Pulmonologist
13 yrs exp
Udaipur
Sonologist can roughly quantify fluid by ultrasound and mention in the report
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Dr. Manish Sahu
Pulmonologist
13 yrs exp
Noida
Not only amount.. depends.on symptoms duration also.. probable cause also..need to know more answers to help you better
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