Is interleukin 6 an early marker of injury severity following major trauma in humans?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-295

  Gebhard, Florian ^a   Pfetsch, Helga ^a   Steinbach, Gerald ^a   Strecker, Wolf ^a   Kinzl, Lothar ^a   Brückner, Uwe B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034063067     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.135.3.291     Document Type: Article

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