Value of procalcitonin quick test in the differentiation between sterile and infected forms of acute pancreatitis

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 61, 2005, Pages 243-245

  Oláh, Attila ^a   Belágyi, Tibor ^a   Issekutz, Ákos ^a   Makay, Roland ^a   Zaborszky, Andras ^b  

^a Petz Aladar Teaching Hospital   (Hungary)

^b O and G   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; Infected necrosis; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; PROCALCITONIN;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTED PANCREATITIS; INFECTION; MALE; PANCREAS ABSCESS; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCALCITONIN QUICK TEST; SEPSIS; STERILE PANCREATITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 14144255589     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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