Role of pleural fluid cholesterol in differentiating transudative from exudative pleural effusion

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 64-69

  Guleria, Randee ^a   Agarwal, S R ^a   Sinha, Sanjeev ^a   Pande, J N ^a   Misra, Anoop ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CHOLESTEROL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038683189     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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