[Rheumatoid pleurisy with cholesterol pleural effusion. A single case. Literature review (author's transl)].

The authors report a new case of rheumatoid pleurisy proved by the clinical contest and the biological samplings of pleural fluid: a pleurisy with cholesterol pleural effusion. Six observations of rheumatoid pleurisy with cholesterol pleural effusion were found in the literature. This new case confirms this biological peculiarity of rheumatoid pleurisies and the authors insist on the existence of acute pleurisies with cholesterol pleural effusion.