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Age affects the diagnostic accuracy of the cancer ratio for malignant pleural effusion

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cancer ratio (CR), which is defined as serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) to pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) ratio, has been reported to be a useful diagnostic marker for malignant pleural effusion (MPE). Whether its diagnostic accuracy is affected by age remains unk...

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Autores principales: Huang, Jin-Hong, Chen, Hong, Zhang, Zhi-Cheng, Gu, Jie, Yan, Li, Jiang, Meng-Ping, Zheng, Wen-Qi, Hu, Zhi-De, Jiang, Ting-Wang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10245516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37286973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-023-02475-8