Is the mean platelet volume a predictive marker for the diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis in children?

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 688-693

  Tekin, Mehmet ^a   Konca, Capan ^a   Gulyuz, Abdulgani ^b   Uckardes, Fatih ^a   Turgut, Mehmet ^a  

^a ADIYAMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Sevgi Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute pyelonephritis; Childhood; Mean platelet volume

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY SCAR; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RELIABILITY; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; BLOOD; PYELONEPHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEAN PLATELET VOLUME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYELONEPHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84940436586     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-014-1049-z     Document Type: Article

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