Differential diagnosis of tuberculous and malignant pleural effusions: What is the role of adenosine deaminase?

Lung

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 233-240

  Zarić, Bojan ^a   Kuruc, Vesna ^b   Milovančev, Aleksandar ^a   Markovic, Marica ^c   Šarčev, Tatjana ^a   Čanak, Vukašin ^a   Pavlović, Slobodan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase; Lung cancer; Malignant pleural effusion; Pleural biopsy; Tuberculous pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG GRANULOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AGED; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ENZYME TESTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; THORACOSCOPY; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 47549088116     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-008-9085-7     Document Type: Article

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