Quantitative determination of cerebrospinal fluid bilirubin on a high throughput chemistry analyzer

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 55, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 283-288

  Ahmed, Degmo Said ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a   Hillered, Lars ^a   Wande, Birgitta ^a   Ryden, Ingvar ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Cerebrospinal fluid; Diagnosis; Humans; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; TURNAROUND TIME; WORKLOAD;

BILIRUBIN; DRUG STABILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINAL PUNCTURE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350536981     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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