Epidemioclinical, etiological and evolutionary aspects of neoplastic pleurisy in the pneumo-phtisiology department of the University Hospital Sylvanus Olympio of Lomé (Togo)

Abstract

Neoplastic pleurisy (NP) is defined by the presence of tumor cells in the pleural fluid or pleural tissue.1 They are due either to a primary lesion of the pleura (mesothelioma) or to a secondary location of a bronchopulmonary or extrathoracic tumor. In sub-Saharan Africa, with better explorations (pleural biopsy) in the case of exudative pleurisy and histopathological examination of pleural fragments, we have been witnessing an increase in the proportion of cancer etiologies in recent years.