Notable steps in obtaining improved estimates for glomerular filtration rate

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-170

  Grubb, Anders ^a   Nordin, Gunnar ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b External Quality Assurance in Laboratory Medicine in Sweden   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYSTATIN C; EDETATE CHROMIUM CR 51; INULIN; IOHEXOL; IOTALAMIC ACID I 125;

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEPHROTOXICITY; PREDICTION;

CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 31844451267     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.062737     Document Type: Editorial

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