The relationship between age and pleural fluid adenosine deaminase activity in pleural tuberculosis

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 459-464

  Moon, Jin Wook ^a   Han, Chang Hoon ^a   Kang, Shin Myung ^a   Park, Moo Suk ^a   Hwang, Sang Yeon ^a   Byun, Min Kwang ^a   Chung, Wou Young ^a   Hwang, Hye Jin ^a   Kim, Young Sam ^a   Kim, Se Kyu ^a   Chang, Joon ^a   Kim, Sung Kyu ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase; Age; Pleural effusion; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

EID: 23444452905     PISSN: 17383536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4046/trd.2005.58.5.459     Document Type: Article

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