Usefulness of procalcitonin in adults and children;Utilité du dosage plasmatique de la procalcitonine chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 1, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 872-877

  Gervaix, Alain ^a   Pugin, Jérôme ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEVER; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ADULT; BLOOD; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFLAMMATION; SYNDROME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEPSIS; SYNDROME; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 19444383383     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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