Procalcitonin measurement for differential diagnosis between pulmonary embolism and pneumonia [1]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 661-

  Delèvaux, Isabelle ^a   André, Marc ^a   Aumaître, Olivier ^a   Bègue, René Jean ^a   Colombier, Michèle ^a   Piette, Jean Charles ^b  

^a SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCITONIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 0037327133     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000045089.33978.2E     Document Type: Letter

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