Human cytokine levels in nonperforated versus perforated appendicitis: Molecular serum markers for extent of disease?

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1033-1037

  Yoon, Diana Y ^a   Chu, Jason ^a   Chandler, Charles ^a   Hiyama, Sue ^a   Thompson, Jesse E ^a   Hines, Oscar J ^a,b  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; AGED; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RUPTURE;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; INTERLEUKINS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0036988621     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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