The impact of assay quality and reference ranges on clinical decision making in the diagnosis of androgen disorders

Steroids

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1311-1317

  Bhasin, Shalender ^a   Zhang, Anqi ^a   Coviello, Andrea ^a   Jasuja, Ravi ^a   Ulloor, Jagadish ^a   Singh, Ravinder ^b   Vesper, Hubert ^c   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen deficiency; Estradiol; Hormone assays; Reference limits; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS REACTION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RISK FACTOR; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROGENS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 54149084920     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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