Free thyroxine measured with equilibrium dialysis and nine immunoassays decreases in late pregnancy

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 50, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 581-584

  Sapin, Rémy ^a   D'Herbomez, Michèle ^b   Schlienger, Jean Louis ^c  

^a HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Bias; Equilibrium dialysis; Free thyroxine; Immunoassay; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

THYROXINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROXINE;

EID: 4744355175     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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