How to assess high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in elderly?

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-326

  Cankurtaran, Mustafa ^a   Ulger, Zekeriya ^a   Halil, Meltem ^a   Yavuz, Burcu Balam ^a   Onal, Ibrahim Koral ^b   Unal, Serhat ^b   Ariogul, Servet ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anemia in elderly; Diseases of elderly; Erythrocte sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 77649181040     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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