Polymorphonuclear leukocytes and swollen endothelial cells from acute infectious non-tuberculous pleuritis (Percy Musgrave; photo by L.
Lymphoid cells from pleural fluid; case of tuberculous pleuritis (Percy Musgrave; photo by L.
Acute endocardial inflammation may be distinguished from pleuritis by the absence of any friction murmur, absence of pain when the chest wall is percussed, and the absence of effusion in the cavity of the chest.
Cardiac and the other internal complications, except the cerebral, are more frequent than in adults; endocarditis is especially frequent, pericarditis and pleuritis not rare.
Pneumonia and pleuritis are very frequently double in rheumatic fever, and are often latent, requiring a careful physical examination for their detection.
In coughing, sneezing, and the like, the pain produced is not unlike that in pleuritis and intercostal neuralgia.
Among the serous inflammations which complicate or follow scarlet fever, pleuritis is one of the most important.
Croupous and other forms of pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, and pleuritis have been not rarely noted.
The pleuritis is seldom latent, or so masked by the symptoms of the general disease that it is apt to be overlooked.
