Pleural interleukin-1 β in differentiating transudates and exudates: Comparative analysis with other biochemical parameters

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-206

  Alexandrakis, Michael G ^a,c   Kyriakou, Despina ^a   Alexandraki, Rea ^b   Pappa, Konstantina A ^a   Antonakis, Nikolaos ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Venizelion General Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Exudate; IL 1 ; Pleural fluid; Transudate

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; ROC CURVE; THORACOCENTESIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLESTEROL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PROTEINS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036318976     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063620     Document Type: Article

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