Diagnostic Value of Three Tumour Markers Determined in Pleural Effusions1)

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-142

  Conejo, José R ^a   Benedito, José E ^a   Jiménez, Agustin ^a   Menckén, Maria T ^a   Cano, Joaquin ^a   Granizo, Vicente ^a   Larrodera, Luisa ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CIVIL DE GUADALAJARA FRAY ANTONIO ALCALDE   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA RELATED ANTIGEN; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA-RELATED ANTIGEN; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER; POLYPEPTIDE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ACCURACY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERPINS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029657899     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm.1996.34.2.139     Document Type: Article

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