Performance evaluation of a new rapid quantitative assay system for measurement of D-dimer in plasma and whole blood: PATHFAST™ D-dimer

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 591-596

  Dempfle, Carl Erik ^a   Suvajac, Nenad ^a   Elmas, Elif ^a   Borggrefe, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVALUATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BLOOD; CALIBRATION; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; PLASMA; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34447633547     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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