Performance characteristics of seven automated thyroxine and T-uptake methods

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 377, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 248-255

  Roberts, Richard F ^a   La'ulu, Sonia L ^a   Roberts, William L ^b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Free thyroxine index; Immunoassay; Imprecision; Pregnancy; Thyroid hormone binding ratio; Thyroxine

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

THYROXINE;

EID: 33845400235     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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