Influence of pleural fluid red blood cell count on the misidentification of transudates;Influencia del recuento de hematíes del líquido pleural en la identificación errónea de los trasudados

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 131, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 770-772

  Manuel Porcel, José ^a   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Martínez, Montserrat ^a   Rodríguez Panadero, Francisco ^b   Bielsa, Silvia ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erythrocytes; Exudate; Lactate dehydrogenase; Pleural effusion; Pleural fluid; Transudate

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EFFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA FLUID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSUDATE;

ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 63149194213     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(08)75501-5     Document Type: Article

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