S100A8/A9: A potential new diagnostic aid for acute appendicitis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-336

  Bealer, John F ^a   Colgin, Mark ^a  

^a AspenBio Pharma Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Calprotectin; Diagnosis; S100A8 A9

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALGRANULIN A; CALGRANULIN B;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALGRANULIN A; CALGRANULIN B; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951124844     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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