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cholohemothorax
1. The presence of bile and blood in the thorax (area of the body located between the neck and the abdomen that contains the lungs, the heart and part of the aorta).
2. A pleural effusion (excess fluid between the two membranes that envelop the lung) containing bile and blood.

The most common symptoms of pleural effusion are chest pain and difficulty breathing (dyspnea). Many pleural effusions cause no symptoms but are discovered during a physical examination or seen on a chest x-ray, which is the most convenient way to confirm the diagnosis.

Many conditions are capable of causing pleural effusion, including heart failure and uremia (kidney failure), hypoalbuminemia (low levels of albumin in the blood), infections (TB, bacterial, fungal, viral), pulmonary embolism, and malignancies (metastatic tumors, Hodgkin disease, mesothelioma).