Serum procalcitonin in cerebral ventriculitis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1778-1781

  Berger, Christian ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Schaebitz, Wolf R ^a   Aschoff, Alfred ^a   Schwab, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036347940     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200208000-00017     Document Type: Article

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