Serum substances that interfere with thyroid hormone assays in patients with chronic renal failure

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 739-746

  Iitaka, Makoto ^a   Kawasaki, Satomi ^a   Sakurai, Shin Ichi ^b   Hara, Yoshihito ^b   Kuriyama, Renjiro ^b   Yamanaka, Kayo ^a   Kitahama, Shinji ^a   Miura, Shiro ^a   Kawakami, Yoshito ^a   Katayama, Shigehiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ohme Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIPPURIC ACID; INDOLEACETIC ACID; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; UREMIA;

AGED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; HIPPURATES; HUMANS; INDICAN; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 14444276990     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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