[Recurrent pleural effusion with macroglobulinemia--case report with revision of the literature].
We describe a case of chronic relapsing pleural effusion in a 73 year old male with lympho-palsmocytic pleural infiltration and monoclonal gamopathy (IgMk), and no other manifestation of Waldenströmacute;s Disease (W.D.). The patient was treated symptomatically and remained in good general condition up to his death from unrelated causes after 3 years of evolution. We reviewed the literature trying to define the different presentations of W.D.
Moura e Sá
João
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Assistente Graduado de Pneumologia - Departamento de Pneumologia. Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000150:complications*; D012008:Recurrence; D008258:Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / Q000150:complications*