Ex uno plures: The concealed complexity of bilirubin species in neonatal blood samples

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1185-1187

  McDonagh, Antony F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Hyperbilirubinemia; Jaundice; Laboratory medicine; Phototherapy

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; HUMAN; ISOMER; JAUNDICE; KERNICTERUS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NEWBORN CARE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ISOMERISM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BILIRUBIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOMERISM; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; PHOTOTHERAPY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749072083     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0594     Document Type: Article

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