Screening panels for detection of monoclonal gammopathies: Confidence intervals

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 677-679

  Pretorius, Carel J ^a   Ungerer, Jacobus P J ^a   Wilgen, Urs ^a   Klingberg, Sandra ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOFIXATION ELECTROPHORESIS; LETTER; MACROGLOBULINEMIA; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; PLASMACYTOMA; POEMS SYNDROME; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHY OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950572311     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.139097     Document Type: Letter

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