An Italian program of External Quality Control for chromogranin A (CgA) assay: Performance evaluation of CgA determination

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1244-1250

  Verderio, Paolo ^a   Dittadi, Ruggero ^b   Marubini, Ettore ^c   Pizzamiglio, Sara ^a   Gion, Massimo ^d   De Apollonia, Leandro ^e   Paradiso, Angelo ^f  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b AULSS 12   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromogranin A; Control chart; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); External quality control program; Immunoradiometric assay (IRMA); Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CHROMOGRANIN A; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; ITALY; LABORATORIES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34548599886     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.251     Document Type: Article

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