pleural effusions

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pleural effusions

Hi,
WE would like to update guidelines for specimen submission to our Cytopathology dept. and we are interested to know requirements of other labs for pleural effusion samples - do they require the whole volume of effusion? or only a part of it? 150 ml or up to 500 ml? the first part or the last part? what kind of sampling do they recommend in a case of large volume effusions?

thanks for any input 

Irena Kirbis
Dept of Cytopathology
Institute of Oncology Ljubljana
Slovenia
ikirbis@onko-i.si



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