Meningitis in adult patients with a negative direct cerebrospinal fluid examination: value of cytochemical markers for differential diagnosis
Critical Care2011Vol. 15(3), pp. R136–R136
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Alain Viallon, Nicolas Desseigne, Olivier Marjollet, Albert Birynczyk, Mathieu Belin, Stéphane Guyomarch, Jacques Borg, Bruno Pozetto, Jean Claude Bertrand, Fabrice Zéni
Abstract
Serum procalcitonin and CSF lactate concentrations appear to be the most highly discriminative parameters for the differential diagnosis of BM and VM.
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