Blood polymorphonuclear leukocyte migration as a predictive marker for infections in severe trauma: Comparison with various inflammation parameters

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 331-334

  Egger, Gerd ^a   Aigner, Reingard ^b   Glasner, Andreas ^b   Hofer, Herwig P ^b   Mitterhammer, Heike ^b   Zelzer, Sieglinde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infection; Marker; Migration; PMN; Predictive; Trauma

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELASTASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MALONALDEHYDE; NEOPTERIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUTROPHIL; PREDICTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CELL MOVEMENT; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-8; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 1342332122     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2111-6     Document Type: Article

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