A Biochemical Evaluation on Inflammatory Markers after Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy
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A Biochemical Evaluation on Inflammatory Markers after Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy
We have read with great interest the paper published in a recent issue of ISRN Urology by Bantis et al. [1] entitled “can tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 be used as prognostic markers of infection following ureteroscopic lithotripsy?” in which they report preoperative and postoperative serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factorα (TNF-α) levels in patients with urolithiasis. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Scholarly Research Notices
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2356-7872
DOI: 10.1155/2014/795839