Investigations and characteristics of patients with confirmed lymphoma who underwent pleural fluid lymphocyte subsets analysis.
| Patient | Disease | Comorbidities | History of lymphoma | LS positive | Tissue obtained | Tissue diagnostic? |
| 1 | DLBCL | Nil | No | No | Marrow | Yes |
| 2 | DLBCL | AF | Yes | Yes | Marrow | No |
| 3 | DLBCL | CCF, AF | Yes | No | Node | Yes |
| 4 | Low grade NHL | Nil | Yes | Yes | Too frail | |
| 5 | Low grade NHL | Nil | Yes | No | Too frail | |
| 6 | CLL | Nil | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 7 | CLL | T2DM, AF | No | Yes | Thoracoscopy | Yes |
DLBCL=Diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma, NHL=Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, CLL=Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia