Routine measurement of pleural fluid amylase is not indicated

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 228-232

  Branca, Paul ^a   Rodriguez, R Michael ^b   Rogers, Jeffrey T ^b   Ayo, Dereje S ^b   Moyers, J Phillip ^b   Light, Richard W ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHYLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS RUPTURE; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THORACOCENTESIS;

EID: 0035931283     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.161.2.228     Document Type: Article

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