Pleural fluid viscosity may help identifying malignant pleural effusions

Respirology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 341-345

  Chang, Liang Che ^a   Hua, Chung Ching ^a,b   Liu, Yu Chih ^a   Chu, Chien Ming ^a   Chen, Hung Jie ^a   Lee, Ning ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cytological examination; Lactate dehydrogenase; Malignant pleural effusion; Pleural fluid viscosity; Protein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; THORACOCENTESIS; TUMOR CELL; VISCOSITY;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BODY FLUIDS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLEURAL CAVITY; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 41849092633     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01276.x     Document Type: Article

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