Letter to the editor regarding the usefulness of the refrigeration test in addition to triglyceride levels for the detection of chylous ascites and pleural effusions.
Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Adrian
A
Klak
Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Simon
S
Degandt
Department of Laboratory Medicine, AZ St-Jan Hospital, Ruddershove 10, 8000 Bruges, Belgium.
Maxime
M
De Sloovere
Department of Laboratory Medicine, AZ St-Jan Hospital, Ruddershove 10, 8000 Bruges, Belgium.
Michel
M
Langlois
Department of Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: pieter.vermeersch@uzleuven.be.
Pieter
P
Vermeersch
D002915:Chylous Ascites; D006801:Humans; D010996:Pleural Effusion; D012034:Refrigeration; D014280:Triglycerides
D014280:Triglycerides