Usefulness of triglyceride levels in pleural fluid

Lung

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 483-489

  Valdés, Luis ^a   San José, Ma Esther ^a   Pose, Antonio ^a   Estévez, Juan Carlos ^b   González Barcala, Francisco J ^c   Álvarez Dobaño, José M ^a   Light, Richard W ^d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra ^*  (Spain)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical parameters; Capillary permeability; Diagnosis; Pleural disease; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COLON CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRESSLER SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH CANCER; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; THYMOMA; THYROID CANCER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UTERUS SARCOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CHYLOTHORAX; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENNESSEE; TRIGLYCERIDES; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651339075     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-010-9261-4     Document Type: Article

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