Radiological and clinical pattern of pleural effusion in Ilorin

1disorders. While it affects up to 800,000 Background: Pleural effusion (PE) is the 2 commonest manifestation of pleural disease persons per year in United States, Garrido and may herald pathologies from other parts and Sancho quoted incidence of 3 of the body. Etiology varies with age and 400/100,000 of population in Spain . PE geographical location. Chest radiography is requires early recognition, estimation of its an essential component of early assessment severity (volum e of collection) and though there are suggestions to apply chest identification of the etiology in order to ultrasonography also early in patient institute an effective treatment. A complete evaluation. This study aims to determine the history and careful physical examination radiological and clinical pattern of pleural can raise the suspicion of an effusion and 4,5 effusions based on clinical and radiological may provide clues to the etiology . Since PE diagnosis of pleural effusion and to correlate occurs in a wide variety of clinical conditions this with etiology. and because it may evade clinical detection, Method: A retrospective analysis of 276 plain other diagnostic m easures are often 4,5 Chest X-rays (CXR) of patients diagnosed necessary . These includes im aging clinically to have PE over a period of 6Ω years modalities, pleural fluid analysis, pleural