Diagnosing tubercular pleural effusions [6] (multiple letters)

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1078-1079

  Gupta, Uday A ^a   Chhabra, Sunil K ^a   Hiraki, Akio ^b   Aoe, Keisuke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NATIONAL SANYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LETTER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; CHEMISTRY; NOTE;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; PLEURAL EFFUSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 15844381975     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.3.1078     Document Type: Article

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