Total Prostate Specific Antigen Stability Confirmed After Long-Term Storage of Serum at -80C

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 534-538

  Reed, Amanda Beth ^a   Ankerst, Donna Pauler ^a   Leach, Robin J ^a   Vipraio, Gilbert ^a   Thompson, Ian M ^a   Parekh, Dipen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

freezing; prostate; prostate specific antigen; serum

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CAUCASIAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MALE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; STUDENT T TEST; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 46449110507     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.04.021     Document Type: Article

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