Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumor Presenting as a Left Pleural Effusion

Miguel A Ortiz; Gabriela Montes; Onix Cantres; William Rodríguez

Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumor Presenting as a Left Pleural Effusion

Fed Pract. 2020 Jun;37(6):290-294.

Authors

Miguel A Ortiz¹, Gabriela Montes¹, Onix Cantres¹, William Rodríguez¹

Affiliation

¹ is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, is a Physician, is a Pulmonologist, and is Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Training Program Director, all at VA Caribbean Health Care System in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

PMID: 32669783
PMCID: PMC7357887

Abstract

The presence of a symptomatic and recurrent unilateral pleural effusion should alert physicians to consider thoracentesis with mindful use of biomarkers not only for therapeutic purposes, but also for diagnosis of both benign and malignant etiologies.