The status of serum procalcitonin in pulmonary tuberculosis and nontuberculosis pulmonary disease

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 647-648

  Naderi, Mohammad ^a   Hashemi, Mohammad ^b   Kouhpayeh, Hamidreza ^a   Ahmadi, Reza ^a  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCITONIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349278412     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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