Diagnostic utility of postmortem fine-needle aspiration cultures

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 650-655

  Aranda, Miquel ^a   Martí, Carmina ^b   Bernet, Marianna ^b   Gudiol, Francesc ^c   Pujol, Ramon ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE TERRASSA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DE GRANOLLERS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031874736     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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