Postmortem measurement of serum procalcitonin concentration in waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome (1)

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 441, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 629-631

  Tsokos, Michael ^a  

^a Institute of Legal Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Postmortem measurement; Procalcitonin; Waterhouse Friderichsen syndrome

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; DEATH, SUDDEN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; WATERHOUSE-FRIDERICHSEN SYNDROME;

EID: 0036456142     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-002-0675-0     Document Type: Letter

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