Effect of tonsillectomy on serum concentrations of interleukins and TNF-α in patients with chronic tonsillitis

ORL

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 254-256

  Ünal, Murat ^a,b   Öztürk, Candan ^a   Görür, Kemal ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic tonsillitis; Cytokine; Immunology; Interleukin; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TONSILLECTOMY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0036380115     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064136     Document Type: Article

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