The clinical value of procalcitonin in the prediction of infected necrosis in acute pancreatitis

Intensive Care Medicine, Supplement

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Rau, B ^a   Steinbach, G ^a   Baumgart, K ^a   Gansauge, F ^a   Grunert A ^a   Beger, H G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CALCITONIN; CATECHOLAMINE; PROCALCITONIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; SEPSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034070023     PISSN: 09351701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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