Volume 20 No 12 (2022)
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Role of Procalcitonin in diagnosis of bacterial infection after percutaneous ablation therapy for HCC patients
Mostafa H. Elshamy , Hanaa H. Elsaid , Abeer H. Abdelkader , Reham A.Abdelkhalek
Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver malignancy which represents up to 90% of the total primary liver cancers. Procalcitonin can be used as a marker of severe sepsis caused by bacteria and generally the levels of it correlate with the degree of sepsis
Keywords
Predictive; Procalcitonin; Bacterial Infection; Hepato –Cellular Carcinoma; Ablation Therapy
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