Platelet parameters in children with upper urinary tract infection: Is there a specific response?

Renal Failure

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-381

  Catal, F ^a   Bavbek, N ^a,b   Bayrak, O ^a   Uz, E ^a   Isik, B ^a   Karabel, M ^a   Degirmencioglu, H ^a   Mete, E ^a   Akcay, A ^a  

^a FATIH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Turkey)

^b Department of Nephrology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Mean platelet volume; Platelet count; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; THROMBOCYTOSIS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 45749113459     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08860220801947389     Document Type: Article

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