Procalcitonin as an early predictor of postoperative infectious complications in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 715-720

  Nie, H ^a   Jiang, D ^a   Ou, Y ^a   Quan, Z ^a   Hao, J ^a   Bai, C ^a   Huang, X ^b   An, H ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

infectious complication; predictor; procalcitonin; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CELLULITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; COHORT STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79958029737     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2010.190     Document Type: Article

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