Report of the IFCC Working Group for standardization of thyroid function tests; Part 3: Total thyroxine and total triiodothyronine

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 921-929

  Thienpont, Linda M ^a   Van Uytfanghe, Katleen ^a   Beastall, Graham ^b   Faix, James D ^c   Ieiri, Tamio ^d   Miller, W Greg ^e   Nelson, Jerald C ^f   Ronin, Catherine ^g   Ross, H Alec ^h   Thijssen, Jos H ⁱ   Toussaint, Brigitte ^j  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DONOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SERUM; STANDARDIZATION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 77953016015     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.140228     Document Type: Article

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