Procalcitonin: An ally in the management of patient subjected to abdominal surgery;Procalcitonina: Un aliado en el manejo del paciente sometido a cirugía abdominal

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 513-514

  Suberviola Canas B ^a   Gonzalez Castro A ^a   Fernandez Miret B ^a   Rubio Lopez I ^a   Garcia Astudillo L A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; BLOOD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; MALE;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 70350441872     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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