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Use of cholesterol and soluble tumour markers CEA and syndecan-2 in pleural effusions in cases of inconclusive cytology

AIMS: In order to improve diagnostics in pleural effusions, additional value of effusion cholesterol, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and syndecan-2 assays to cytology was studied. METHODS: Biomarkers were measured in effusion supernatants from 247 patients, of whom 126 had malignant pleural involvem...

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Autores principales: Gulyas, Miklos, Fillinger, Janos, Kaposi, Andras D, Molnar, Miklos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31028099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2018-205650