Low gradient ascites: A seven-year course review

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2337-2339

  Mansour Ghanaei, Fariborz ^a   Shafaghi, Afshin ^a   Bagherzadeh, Amir Hossein ^a   Fallah, Mohammad Sadegh ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Albumin; Ascites; Cancer; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY INFLAMMATION; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OVARY CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PERITONEUM CANCER; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASCITES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 18744407856     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i15.2337     Document Type: Review

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