PLEURAL EFFUSION 🫁💦 #Pulmonology Check out this THICK pleural fluid that was drained from the lung via chest tube thoracostomy. This exceedingly viscous fluid build up was a result of a ‘pleural effusion’ caused by cancer - specifically malignant psuedo-Meig’s syndrome. A link to the full case study can be found below. ‪In this case, the ‘malignant pleural effusion’ (MPE) forms when cells from either a lung cancer or another type of cancer spread to the pleural space of the lung. These cancer