Use of intraoperative samples to optimize efficacy of central laboratory parathyroid hormone analyses [2]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 535-536

  Barassi, Alessandra ^a   Porreca, Wanda ^b   De Pasquale, Loredana ^b   Bastagli, Amelia ^a   d'Eril, Gian Vico Melzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARATHYROID HORMONE;

CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33947421226     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.080796     Document Type: Letter

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