False positive cardiac troponin results in patients without acute myocardial infarction

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 546-550

  Lum, Gifford ^a   Solarz, David E ^a   Farney, Linda ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33748932343     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/T94UUXTJ3TX5Y9W2     Document Type: Review

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