Selected performance characteristics of the Roche Elecsys® testosterone II assay on the Modular analytics E 170 analyzer

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 411, Issue 1-16, 2010, Pages 1073-1079

  Owen, William E ^a   Rawlins, Mindy L ^a   Roberts, William L ^b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemiluminescent; Immunoassay; Imprecision; Interference; Method comparison

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77953290645     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2010.03.041     Document Type: Article

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