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In many cases of malignant disease an effusion is produced by some indirect mechanism, for instance a peritoneal transudate due to venous obstruction in the porta hepatis, or an inflammatory pleural effusion due to a collapsed lobe of the lung in bronchial carcinoma. It is therefore not to be expected that all effusions in cases of cancer will contain malignant cells211.
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© 1989 A. I. Spriggs and M. M. Boddington
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Spriggs, A.I., Boddington, M.M. (1989). Malignant Cells in Serous Fluids. In: Atlas of Serous Fluid Cytopathology. Current Histopathology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0849-9_6
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