Misleading high thyrotropin results obtained with a two-site immunometric assay involving a chimeric antibody

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 946-948

  Sapin, Rémy ^a,b   Agin, Arnaud ^a   Gasser, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC ANTIBODY; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; HORMONE ANTIBODY; LEVOTHYROXINE; MACROGOL; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 2142654366     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.031443     Document Type: Article

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