Association of hypoalbuminemia with the presence and size of pleural effusion in children with pneumonia

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Prais, Dario ^a,b   Kuzmenko, Elena ^a   Amir, Jacob ^a   Harel, Liora ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Albumin; Exudate; Parapneumonia; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALBUMINOID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; METABOLISM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALBUMINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40949102290     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-0317     Document Type: Article

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