Influence of preanalytical factors on the immulite intact parathyroid hormone assay [2]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 974-975

  Scharnhorst, Volkher ^a   Valkenburg, Jan ^a   Vosters, Cor ^a   Vader, Huib ^a  

^a MÁXIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; HEPARIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 2142657291     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2003.027912     Document Type: Letter

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