Wegener Granulomatosis Revealed by Pleural Effusion

Table 1

Cases published with similar initial pleural effusion in Wegener’s granulomatosis.

	Blundell et al. [1]	McCann et al. [2]	Toffart et al.
Clinical presentation	64-year-old woman	65-year-old man	45-year-old man
	Fever	Chest pain, dyspnoea	Dorsal pain
Initial chest X-ray	Left pleural effusion	Left pleural effusion	Non informative
Blood biology	WBC 13000/mm^3	WBC $<$12100/mm^3	WBC 12000/ mm^3
		No eosinophilia	No eosinophilia
Fluid analysis	Unsuccesfull	Exsudate: protein 53 g/L	Exsudate: protein 49.7 g/L
		WBC count: 7.69/mm^3	WBC count: 35/mm^3
		(i) 25% eosinophils	(i) 85% lymphocytes
		(ii) 37% neutrophils	(ii) 10% neutrophils
		(iii) 34% lymphocytes	(iii) 5% monocytes