Open AccessReactive oxygen metabolites can be used to differentiate malignant and non-malignant pleural efffusions
Author(s) -
Ufuk Çobanoğlu,
Fuat Sayır,
Duygu Mergan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1737.65042
Subject(s) - medicine , malignant pleural effusion , pleural effusion , statistical significance , mann–whitney u test , gastroenterology , malignant disease , pathology , cancer
Increase in reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM) and free radicals is an important cause of cell injury. In this study, we investigated whether determination of ROM in pleural fluids of patients with malignant and non-malignant pleural effusions can be used as a tumor marker indicating malignant effusions in the differential diagnosis.