EDTA contamination of serum samples: Common but not necessarily significant

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 478-478

  Hawkins, Robert C ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; EDETIC ACID; IRON;

CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EDETIC ACID; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY; SERUM;

EID: 84855169437     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2011.011074     Document Type: Letter

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