Comparison of the sensitivity of 2 automated immunoassays with immunofixation electrophoresis for detecting urine bence jones proteins

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1505-1507

  Viedma, José Antonio ^a   Garrigós, Noemí ^a   Morales, Silvia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCE JONES PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GAMMOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFIXATION ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MYELOMA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOANALYSIS; BENCE JONES PROTEIN; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MALE; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23044497837     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.045880     Document Type: Article

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