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While caring for patients with pleural effusion, we found that histiocytic pleural effusion (HisPE) was not uncommon. However, few studies have explored HisPE. The purpose of the present study was to determine the clinical characteristics and etiologies of HisPE.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>In this retrospective study, HisPE was defined as pleural fluid white blood cells comprised of \u2265 50% histiocytes. Using a clinical data warehouse, patients with HisPE among all patients aged &gt;18 years who underwent thoracentesis and pleural fluid analysis between January 2010 and December 2019 at Ulsan University Hospital were enrolled. A total of 295 (9.0%) of 3279 patients who underwent thoracentesis were identified as HisPE patients. Among them, 201 with exudative HisPE were included. Clinical characteristics and etiologies were extracted from medical records and analyzed.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Among the 201 patients with exudative HisPE, the major causes were malignant pleural effusion (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009102 [50.7%]), parapneumonic effusion (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20099 [4.5%]), and tuberculous pleurisy (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20099 [4.5%]). In the 102 patients with malignant pleural effusion, the main types of cancer were lung (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200942 [41.2%]), breast (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200916 [15.7%]), and stomach cancer (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200911 [10.8%]). Among lung cancers, adenocarcinoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200934 [81.0%]) was the most common histology.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The leading cause of exudative HisPE was malignancy, particularly lung cancer. Physicians should consider the possibility of malignant disease if histiocytes are predominantly present in pleural effusion.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12957-021-02296-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,16]],"date-time":"2021-06-16T16:08:09Z","timestamp":1623859689000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Histiocytic pleural effusion: the strong clue to malignancy"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Ganghee","family":"Chae","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jae-Bum","family":"Jun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hwa Sik","family":"Jung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chui Yong","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jin Hyoung","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Byung Ju","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hyeon Hui","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Seung Won","family":"Ra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kwang Won","family":"Seo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yangjin","family":"Jegal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jong Joon","family":"Ahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sang Hyuk","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9224-0866","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Taehoon","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,16]]},"reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"2296_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1055","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mcna.2011.08.005","volume":"95","author":"RW Light","year":"2011","unstructured":"Light RW. 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