Prague Med. Rep. 2014, 115, 16-23

https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2014.2

Are Serum Procalcitonin and Interleukin-1 Beta Suitable Markers for Diagnosis of Acute Pyelonephritis in Children?

Abolfazl Mahyar1,*, Parviz Ayazi1, Reza Ahmadi1, Mohammad Mahdi Daneshi-Kohan1, Hassan Jahani Hashemi1, Reza Dalirani2, Seyed Alireza Moshiri1, Morteza Habibi1, Mehdi Sahmani1, Ahmad Ali Sahmani1

1Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
2Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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