Underestimation of monoclonal proteins by agarose serum protein electrophoresis

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-129

  Chang, Chin Yung ^a   Fritsche, Herbert A ^a   Glassman, Armand B ^a   Mcclure, Katherine G ^a   Liu, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BROMCRESOL GREEN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA-CHAINS; MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHIES, BENIGN;

EID: 0030914732     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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