作者总结了 Alabama 州 Mobile 县1968年～1988年的1737例结核病,其中结核性胸腔积液70例,占同期结核病的4.0%。尽管解剖上胸膜和肺实质存在紧密的联系,由结核杆菌引起的胸膜疾病通常仍被划为肺外结核。以前认为结核性胸腔积液是发生于儿童和青年由新近结核感染引起的急性肉芽肿 The authors summarized 1737 cases of tuberculosis from 1968 to 1988 in Mobile County, Alabama, of which 70 were tuberculous pleural effusions, accounting for 4.0% of tuberculosis in the same period. Despite the anatomical close relationship between the pleura and the lung parenchyma, pleural disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is usually still classified as extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculous pleural effusion was previously thought to occur in children and young adults caused by a recent infection of acute granuloma