Thyroglobulin Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Has a Low Sensitivity for Detecting Structural Disease in Patients with Antithyroglobulin Antibodies

Thyroid

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 74-80

  Azmat, Umal ^a   Porter, Kyle ^b   Senter, Leigha ^b   Ringel, Matthew D ^a   Nabhan, Fadi ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antithyroglobulin antibodies; thyroglobulin mass spectrometry; thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYROID TUMOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009074766     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2016.0210     Document Type: Article

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