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Table 2

Diagnostically useful pleural fluid characteristics

FluidSuspected disease
Putrid odourAnaerobic empyema
Food particlesOesophageal rupture
Bile stainedCholothorax (biliary fistula)
MilkyChylothorax/pseudochylothorax
‘Anchovy sauce’ like fluidRuptured amoebic abscess
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