Establishment of a paediatric age-related reference interval for the measurement of urinary total fractionated metanephrines

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-44

  Griffin, Alison ^a   O'Shea, Paula ^b   FitzGerald, Roland ^a   O'Connor, Gerard ^c   Tormey, William ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^c ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; METADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN; NORMETADRENALIN; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; DIALYSATE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLITE; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METANEPHRINE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NOREPINEPHRINE; NORMETANEPHRINE; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79551480426     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2010.010062     Document Type: Article

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