Pleural fluid pH in parapneumonic pleural effusions: Drawing the line

Respiration

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-346

  Kalomenidis, Ioannis ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALKALINITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PH MEASUREMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TUBE;

DRAINAGE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

EID: 23844485033     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086244     Document Type: Editorial

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