Acute phase markers for the differentiation of infectious and malignant pleural effusions

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 910-918

  Kiropoulos, Theodoros S ^a   Kostikas, Konstantinos ^a   Oikonomidi, Smaragda ^a   Tsilioni, Irene ^a   Nikoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Germenis, Anastasios ^a   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute phase response markers; C reactive protein; Interleukin 6; Pleural effusion; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33947719961     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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