TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, cilt.48, sa.6, ss.1167-1174, 2018 (SCI-Expanded)
Background/aim: Discrimination of pleural effusion etiology is not always easy in clinical practice. Pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) is a new acute-phase protein. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of PTX-3 in the differential diagnosis of pleural effusions.