Artifactual Undetectable HDL-Cholesterol with the Beckman Synchron LX and Vitros 950 Assays Temporally Associated with a Paraprotein [1]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 255-256

  Baca, Arthur ^a   Haber, Richard J ^a   Sujishi, Kirk ^b   Frost, Philip H ^a   Ng, Valerie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PARAPROTEIN;

ARTIFACT; ENZYME ASSAY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ARTIFACTS; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PARAPROTEINS;

EID: 1642492769     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2003.027813     Document Type: Letter

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