Serum amyloid alpha in parapneumonic effusions

Mediators of Inflammation

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Makris, Demosthenes ^a   Boultadakis, Vagelis ^a   Skouras, Vasilis ^b   Damianaki, Aggeliki ^c   Nikoulis, Dimitrios J ^a   Kiropoulos, Theodoros ^a   Oikonomidi, Smaragda ^a   Tsilioni, Irene ^a   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Chania General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SERUM AMYLOID A; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PH; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; EXUDATE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA; PLEURA EMPYEMA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

AGED; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 80053485047     PISSN: 09629351     EISSN: 14661861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/237638     Document Type: Article

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