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January 17, 2025Digestive Surgery3 citationsOpen Access

Procalcitonin as an Early Predictive Marker for Infectious Complications after Hepatectomy

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HMH. MoriHMHiromitsu MaehiraNNNobuhito Nitta

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PCT is the only predictive marker for infectious complications after hepatectomy and is valuable for detecting infectious complications from POD 1.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69df0969de200760a86141b5https://doi.org/10.1159/000543635
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