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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Hematol. 2018 Jan;7(1):14–18. doi: 10.14740/jh339w

Table 2:

Fluid Characteristics

Patient Color Pleural Fluid Nuc Cell Count (cell/ul) Pleural Fluid RBC Count (cell/ul) Pleural Fluid Gluocose Fluid / Serum Protein Fluid/Serum Albumin Fluid/Serum LDH Pleural Fluid Triglycerides
Patient 1 Yellow, Cloudy 120 8875 112 3.3/5.8 2.8 / 4.2 122 / 194 347
Patient 2 Cream Colored, Turbid 210 860 236 5.1/6.5 2.9/3.2 147/275 n/a
Patient 3 Cream Colored n/a n/a 113 2.2/4.5 1.6/3.1 319/415 311

RBC: red blood cell; LDH: lactate dehydrogenase.