Procalcitonin versus interleukin-6 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids of trauma victims with severe lung contusion

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1690-1693

  Stiletto, Raphael J ^a   Baacke, Markus ^a   Gotzen, Leo ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Renz, Harald ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Lung contusion; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0034854588     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200109000-00006     Document Type: Article

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