Differential diagnosis between community-acquired pneumonia and non-pneumonia diseases of the chest in the emergency ward

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 334-339

  Castro Guardiola, Antoni ^a   Armengou Arxé, Arola ^a   Viejo Rodríguez, Alfonso Luís ^a   Peñarroja Matutano, Georgina ^a   Garcia Bragado, Ferran ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute phase reactants; C reactive protein, Differential diagnosis; Community acquired pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033675231     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-6205(00)00118-7     Document Type: Article

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