The relation of the pleural thickening in tuberculosis pleurisy with the activity of adenosine deaminase

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 101-107

  Uskul, Bahadir ^a,b   Turker, H ^a   Ulman, C ^a   Ertugrul, M ^a   Selvi, A ^a   Kant, A ^a   Arslan, S ^a   Ozgel, M ^a  

^a SSK Sureyyapasa Center for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase; Pleural thickening; Tuberculosis pleurisy

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ALBUMIN; ISOENZYME;

AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA THICKENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

EID: 23844476305     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: 2465101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2005.646     Document Type: Article

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