Abstract
Authors describe the present situation concerning the incidence, diagnostics and treatment of patients with pleural effusion. In the groups of these patients hospitalised in the pulmonary department there were 63 afflicted.
The most frequent diagnosis was lung cancer (25), other malignancies (15), pneumonia (10), TB (3) and state after pericardectomy (31. In this article there are discused other aspects of care about patients with malignant and paramalignant effusion in patients with lung and breast cancer including the results of pleurodesis.
The results are very similar to those described with the first author 10 years ago. The most frequent types of effusions in the pulmonary department today are still the malignant and paramalignant ones.