Procalcitonin: Clinical tool or laboratory curiosity?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1224-1225

  Boucher, Bradley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; Procalcitonin trauma; Sepsis; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 0034061416     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200004000-00056     Document Type: Editorial

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