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    This document contains questions about pleural effusions that assess knowledge of causes, diagnostic criteria, physical exam findings, roles of ultrasonography, mechanisms of malignant disease, expected findings from various conditions, management principles, and indications for procedures. Specifically, it asks about transudative and exudative effusions, criteria to classify them, how physical exams can help diagnosis, ultrasonography roles, how cancer causes effusions, findings with esophageal rupture and cancer, managing cancer-related effusions, and indications for biopsy and paracentesis.

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    Pleural Effusion OSPE

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    Muvenn Kannan
    This document contains questions about pleural effusions that assess knowledge of causes, diagnostic criteria, physical exam findings, roles of ultrasonography, mechanisms of malignant disease, expected findings from various conditions, management principles, and indications for procedures. Specifically, it asks about transudative and exudative effusions, criteria to classify them, how physical exams can help diagnosis, ultrasonography roles, how cancer causes effusions, findings with esophageal rupture and cancer, managing cancer-related effusions, and indications for biopsy and paracentesis.

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    OSPE2

    (a) Enumeratetwo(2)causesofexudativeandtransudativepleuraleffusion.
    Typeofeffusion
    Transudative
    1.
    2.
    Exudative
    1.
    2.
    (b) Statethecriteriausedtoclassifytransudativeandexudativepleuraleffusion.Name
    one(1)exceptiontothiscriteria.
    1.___________________________________________________________________
    (c) Explainhowyourphysicalexaminationfindingshelpyoutoarriveatyourdiagnosis.
    Diagnosis

    Physicalexaminationfindings

    (d) Statethree(3)rolesofultrasonographyinpleuraleffusion.
    1.___________________________________________________________________
    2.___________________________________________________________________
    3.___________________________________________________________________
    (e) Statethree(3)mechanismbywhichmalignantdiseasescausespleuraleffusion.
    1.___________________________________________________________________
    2.___________________________________________________________________
    3.___________________________________________________________________
    (f) Enumeratefour(4)expectedfindingsinpleuraleffusioncausedbyesophageal
    rupture.
    1.___________________________________________________________________
    2.___________________________________________________________________

    3.___________________________________________________________________
    4.___________________________________________________________________
    (g) Statetwo(2)expectedfindingsinmalignantpleuraleffusion.
    1.___________________________2.___________________________
    (h) Outlinetheprinciplesofmanagementformalignantpleuraleffusioncausedbybreast
    cancer.
    1 _______________________________________________________________
    2 _______________________________________________________________
    3 _______________________________________________________________
    4 _______________________________________________________________
    5 _______________________________________________________________
    (i) Statetwo(2)indicationsforpleuralbiopsy.
    1.___________________________________________________________________
    2.___________________________________________________________________
    (j) State(4)indicationsfortherapeuticparacentesis.
    1 _________________________________________________________________
    2 _________________________________________________________________
    3 _________________________________________________________________
    4 _________________________________________________________________

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