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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...
Autores principales: | Faesch, Sabine, Cojocaru, Bogdan, Hennequin, Carole, Pannier, Stéphanie, Glorion, Christophe, Lacour, Bernard, Chéron, Gérard |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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