Procalcitonin might help in discrimination between meningeal neuro-Behçet disease and bacterial meningitis.
Suzuki
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N
Department of Neurology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan. naoki@em.neurol.med.tohoku.ac.jp
Mizuno
H
H
Nezu
M
M
Takai
Y
Y
Misu
T
T
Kuroda
H
H
Aoki
M
M
Nakashima
I
I
Itoyama
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002116:Calcitonin / Q000097:blood*; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011498:Protein Precursors / Q000097:blood*
C000606589:CALCA protein, human; D011498:Protein Precursors; D002116:Calcitonin; D015740:Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide