Discriminating Between Transudates and Exudates

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-252

  Heffner, John E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SERUM ALBUMIN;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXUDATE; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; META ANALYSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BAYES THEOREM; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33646586396     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2005.12.008     Document Type: Review

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