Diagnostic value of procalcitonin for acute complicated appendicitis

A rapid and reliable test for detection of complicated appendicitis would be useful when deciding whether emergency surgery is required. We investigated the clinical usefulness of procalcitonin for identifying acute complicated appendicitis. We retrospectively analyzed 63 patients aged ≥15 years who...

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Autores principales: Yamashita, Hiromasa, Yuasa, Norihiro, Takeuchi, Eiji, Goto, Yasutomo, Miyake, Hideo, Miyata, Kanji, Kato, Hideki, Ito, Masafumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nagoya University 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27019529

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4767516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27019529

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