Urinary catecholamine metabolites: Capillary gas chromatography method and experience with 12 cases of neuroblastoma

Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 178-181

  Grkovic, Sanja ^a   Nikolic, Rajko ^a   Dordevic, Maja ^a   Stojanov, Ljubomir ^a  

^a Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

Capillary gas chromatography; Diagnostic aids; Homovanillic acid; Neuroblastoma; Vanillylmandelic acid

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MALONIC ACID; ORGANIC SOLVENT; VANILMANDELIC ACID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLITE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 24044535466     PISSN: 09701915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02867423     Document Type: Article

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