[Day tuberculous exudative pleurisy: morphological and morphometric aspects].
Visceral pleural pathomorpholodical changes were studied in 50 patients. Group 1 included 25 patients with isolated tuberculous pleurisy; Group 2 consisted of 7 patients with tuberculous exudative pleurisy in the presence of a specific process in the lung; a comparison group comprised 18 who had not died from diseases of the lung and pleura. The exudative productive type of specific pleural inflammation was prevalent in 15 (60%) and 4 (57.1%) patients, respectively. In Group 1, the pleural thickness was 144.0 +/- 3.3 microm, which was 8.3 times greater (p < 0.01) than that in the comparison group (17.35 +/- 4.78 microm). In Group 2, the visceral pleural thickness was 151.1 +/- 3.4 microm, which was 8.7 times greater (p < 0.01) than that in the comparison group and 1.05 times greater than that in Group 1. The study has established that in both Group 1 and Group 2, exudative pleurisy is accompanied by early visceral pleural fibrosing with a tendency to be more pronounced in Group 2 patients, which raises the question as to whether it is necessary to use resolution therapy at the early stages of treatment, to inject isoniazid lymphotropically, and to apply physical methods to prevent pleural cavity obliteration.
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