Interleukin-6 and its relationships to acute phase proteins in serous effusion differentiation

Oncology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 415-420

  Alexandrakis, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute phase proteins; Cytokines; Effusions; Exudate; Transudate

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA EFFUSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITIC FLUID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035289586     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.8.2.415     Document Type: Article

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