Predictive value of procalcitonin for bowel ischemia and necrosis in bowel obstruction.

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Published in Surgery on March 01, 2011

Authors

Haridimos Markogiannakis1, Nikolaos Memos, Evangelos Messaris, Dimitrios Dardamanis, Andreas Larentzakis, Dimitrios Papanikolaou, George C Zografos, Andreas Manouras

Author Affiliations

1: 1st Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippokrateion Hospital, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. markogiannakis@yahoo.com

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