Is albumin gradient or fluid to serum albumin ratio better than the pleural fluid lactate dehydroginase in the diagnostic of separation of pleural effusion?

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Joseph, Jose ^a   Badrinath, Padmanabhan ^a   Basran, Gurnam S ^b   Sahn, Steven A ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 2642573414     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-2-1     Document Type: Article

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