The Utility of Urine Desmosine as a Marker of Lung Injury in Spine Surgery

HSS Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-163

  Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^a,c   Starcher, Barry ^b   Ma, Yan ^a,c   Buschiazzo, Valeria ^a   Urban, Michael K ^a,c   Girardi, Federico P ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarkers; lung injury; perioperative; spine; surgery; urine desmosine

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956012363     PISSN: 15563316     EISSN: 15563324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11420-010-9158-z     Document Type: Article

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