Results: A positive bacterial culture was obtained from 84% of patients sputum if it was purulent on presentation compared with only 38% if it was mucoid (p < 0.0001). When restudied in the stable ...

mucoid sputum. She was then admitted to another hospital, where examination revealed hypertension, an enlarged heart, slight dependent edema and enlarged hilar lymph nodes on x-ray study.

Phlegm, also known as sputum, is a kind of mucus made in your chest and usually ... “Phlegm can vary in texture from being frothy and mucoid to being purulent and mucopurulent due to several variables ...

Three months previously he had a cough that was productive of large amounts of mucoid, brownish sputum. Three weeks before entry increasing fatigue and slightly blood-streaked sputum were observed.

Values of 1 and 2 reflected the nature of mucoid sputum (opaque or milky), whereas values of 3 to 8 reflected increasing yellow-green coloration up to the darkest color observed in sputum from ...