Serum total testosterone: Immunoassay compared with negative chemical ionization gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 749-755

  Fitzgerald, Robert L ^a   Herold, David A ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

chemiluminescent assay; endocrinology; immunoassays; mass fragmentography; methods comparison; steroids

Indexed keywords

SILANE DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029964463     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/42.5.749     Document Type: Article

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