Abbreviated Light's Criteria: Sensitivity and Specificity
Introduction:
None written. Excerpt from the entry in Exudative Pleural Effusion:
any one of the following:
any one of the following:
1) pleural protein / serum protein > 0.5
2) pleural LDH / serum LDH > 0.6
(i.e. dropping the pleural LDH vs upper limit of normal serum LDH)
Associated Diagnoses:
96.1% sensitive, 78.8% specific