There's even a vial of his pleural fluids on show.

During expiration, it contains no lung tissue, only pleural fluid.

To do this test, a sample of the pleural fluid must first be taken from the patient.

Normally, no organisms are present in the pleural fluid.

Normally only a small amount of pleural fluid is present in the pleural space.

Pharmacokinetic investigations upon the penetration of mezlocillin into pleural fluid.

In a normal 70 kg human, a few milliliters of pleural fluid is always present within the intrapleural space.

Several diagnostic tools are available to determine the etiology of pleural fluid.

If cancer is suspected, the pleural fluid is sent for cytology.

In total, this patient had two clinical specimens available for analysis: tumor from the surgical resection and pleural fluid (Table 1).