False-positive cardiac troponin I results: Two case reports

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 610-612

  Volk, Andrea L ^b   Hardy, Robert ^b   Robinson, C Andrew ^b   Konrad, Robert J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE;

EID: 0032875416     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/30.9.610     Document Type: Article

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