Complement components and their activation products in pleural fluid

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 723-730

  Salomaa, Eija Riitta ^a   Viander, Markku ^b   Saaresranta, Tarja ^a   Terho, Erkki ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Turku University   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complement activation; Malignancy; Pleural effusion; Pleural fluid; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1R; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031665926     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.3.723     Document Type: Article

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