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Avoiding Misdiagnosis Due to Antibody Interference with Serum Free Thyroxin
INTRODUCTION: Interfering antibodies are capable of causing potentially misleading results in automated thyroid hormone immunoassays. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 46- year-old female patient with autoimmune hypothyroidism in chronic replacement treatment with levothyroxine who was pres...
Autores principales: | Beato-Víbora, Pilar I, Alejo-González, S |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Kowsar
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835757 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijem.37792 |
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