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Is the Sweat Test Infallible in Cystic Fibrosis?
Author(s) -
COLLINS J. E.,
ROLLES C. J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1985.tb10996.x
Subject(s) - cystic fibrosis , sweat test , medicine , sweat
. The diagnosis of cystic fibrosis is straight forward if the clinical findings and sweat sodium are considered together. We describe 3 patients where the diagnosis has proved difficult as both the clinical features and sweat sodium have varied between normal and abnormal.