Current role of liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry in clinical toxicology screening methods

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1091-1103

  Viette, Véronique ^a,b,c   Fathi, Marc ^a,c   Rudaz, Serge ^c   Hochstrasser, Denis ^a,c   Veuthey, Jean Luc ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b ADMed Laboratories   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

clinical toxicology; identification; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC MS); mass spectra; screening

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; ATENOLOL; ATROPINE; BENZOYLECGONINE; BISOPROLOL; BUSPIRONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORPROTHIXENE; CITALOPRAM; COCAINE; DESVENLAFAXINE; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; IBUPROFEN; IRBESARTAN; KETOPROFEN; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; MEFENAMIC ACID; METHADONE; METOPROLOL; MIRTAZAPINE; NORDAZEPAM; NOSCAPINE; OFLOXACIN; ONDANSETRON; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACCURACY; BLOOD; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; ELECTROSPRAY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTOXICATION; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC SECTOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PRECIPITATION; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXICOLOGY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINE; VISCOSITY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 79960275009     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.182     Document Type: Review

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