Eighty five samples of pleural fluid obtained from 76 patients with biopsy proven tuberculous pleurisy were examined cytologically.
Mesothelial cells in pleural fluid.
Pleural fluid right thoracentesis.
Negative for malignant cells.
Trauma with air in the pleural cavity.
Reactive mesothelial cells present in a background of abundant lymphocytes.
Neoplastic transformation of mesothelial cells results in malignant mesothelioma an aggressive tumor especially the pleura.
Specific diagnoses benign eosinophilic pleuritis general.
There are certain cells that line the pleura the thin double layered lining which covers the lungs chest wall and diaphragm which are known as mesothelial cells other than the pleura mesothelial cells also form a lining around the heart pericardium and the internal surface of the abdomen peritoneum.
Mesothelial cells in pleural fluid.
The mesothelial cells have central round nuclei with a moderate amount of light purple cytoplasm and a corona or fringe to the cytoplasmic borders.
Reactive mesothelial cells reactive mesothelial cells in pleural fluid reactive mesothelial cells are found when there is infection or inflammation present in a body cavity.
This has a large ddx.
Numerous mesothelial cells are seen in this pleural fluid from a dog with a transudative effusion with concurrent diapedesis of red blood cells or hemorrhage.
In contrast 65 3 of pleural fluid aspirates obtained from a control group of pati.
Numerous reactive mesothelial cells were present in only 1 2 of specimens examined.