Annual Congress Vienna 2003

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2003; 22: Suppl. 45, abstract number.

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Oral Presentation
Chairs: W. Frank (Treuenbrietzen, Germany), V. Kolek (Olomouc, Czech Republic)

Prospective study – Meisel's criteria for differentiation of pleural transudates from exudates C. L. C. Pessôa, C. T. S. Junior, G. P. Cardoso, N. P. Monteiro (Niterói, Brazil)
Reumathoid factor: diagnostic utility in pleural fluid C. Fernandez, C. Paya, L. Hernandez, S. Martinez, A. Gutierrez, S. Romero (Alicante, Spain)
Intercostal chest drain in the management of spontaneous pneumothorax: to clamp or not to clamp S. Ansari, E. Fontzopoulos, S. F. Hussain (Southend, Cardiff, United Kingdom)
Significance of macrophage predominance in pleural effusions J. Mazza-Stalder, R. Braunschweig, P. Leuenberger, A. Sauty (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Does the pleural fluids parameters predict closed pleural needle biopsy? H. Yildirim, M. Metintas, S. Erginel, F. Alatas, I. Ucgun (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Comparison of the effectiveness of Light criteria and some other proposed criteria in differentiation of pleural fluids as exudates or transudates F. Alatas, C. Naz, M. Metintas, S. Erginel, I. Ucgun, H. Yildirim (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Efficacy of short (24 hours) versus longer (72 hours) chest drainage after talc pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion C. W. H. Davies, S. Chapman, T. Reza, J. Thomas (Reading, United Kingdom)
Pleural effusion in clinical practice G. Pozojevic, B. Perin (Zrenjanin, Sremska Kamenica, Yugoslavia)