Efficacy of procalcitonin and pentraxin-3 as early biomarkers for differential diagnosis of pleural effusions

OBJECTIVES: Pleural effusion, defined as an abnormal accumulation of fluid in pleural space, can be of two types: transudative and exudative. The primary aim of the study was to assess the predictive accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) and pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) in comparison to other biochemical markers s...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Anita, Agrawal, Apurva, Sindhwani, Girish, Sharma, Ashish, Tomo, Sojit, Charan, Jaykaran, Yadav, Dharmveer, Sharma, Praveen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: De Gruyter 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pp-2021-0111

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34179342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pp-2021-0111

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