Can procalcitonin measurement help the diagnosis of osteomyelitis and septic arthritis? A prospective trial

OBJECTIVES: Procalcitonin (PCT) is an accurate marker for differentiating bacterial infection from non-infective causes of inflammation or viral infection. However, there is only one study in children which tested procalcitonin as a diagnostic aid in skeletal infections. With this study we sought to...

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Autores principales: Faesch, Sabine, Cojocaru, Bogdan, Hennequin, Carole, Pannier, Stéphanie, Glorion, Christophe, Lacour, Bernard, Chéron, Gérard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-33

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2777174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-35-33

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