Abstract

PURPOSE: The diagnosis of malignant pleural effusion suffers from low sensitivity of its cytological evaluation. We therefore asked whether proteomic profiles obtained by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) can discriminate malignant from non-malignant effusions.

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