Categorisation of pleural fluids in routine clinical practice: Analysis of pleural fluid protein and lactate dehydrogenase alone compared with modified Light's criteria

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 684-685

  Murphy, Michael J ^a,b   Jenkinson, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORIMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EXUDATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEWBORN; PHOTOMETRY; PLEURA FLUID; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REFERENCE VALUE; THORACOCENTESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROTEINS;

EID: 43549088309     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2007.051318     Document Type: Article

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