Variability in urinary oxalate measurements between six international laboratories

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3954-3959

  Maalouf, Naim M ^a   Adams Huet, Beverley ^a   Pasch, Andreas ^b   Lieske, John C ^c   Asplin, John R ^d   Siener, Roswitha ^e   Hesse, Albrecht ^e   Nuoffer, Jean Marc ^b   Frey, Felix J ^b   Knight, John ^f   Holmes, Ross P ^f   Zerwekh, Joseph E ^a   Bonny, Olivier ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d LithoLink Corporation   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

agreement; hyperoxaluria; method; oxalate; stone

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; OXALIC ACID; SODIUM;

ACIDIFICATION; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; URINALYSIS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LABORATORIES; OXALATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 82255181495     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr147     Document Type: Article

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