Influence of blood collection in plastic vs. glass evacuated serum-separator tubes on hormone and tumour marker levels

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-439

  Smets, Eva M L ^a   Dijkstra Lagemaat, Josien E ^a   Blankenstein, Marinus A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood collection tube; Hormone; Immunoassay; Plastic; Tumour marker

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; C PEPTIDE; CALCITRIOL; CARBOHYDRATE ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GLASS; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NORADRENALIN; PLASTIC; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROXINE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SEROLOGY; TUBE; VOLUNTEER; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; GLASS; HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; PLASTICS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2342655809     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.076     Document Type: Article

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