The laboratory assessment of thyroid function. Nomenclature.
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It is clearly desirable that there should be an agreed standard nomenclature for thyroid function tests, and an agreed method of reporting them. A working party of the American Thyroid Association has proposed a 'Nomenclature for tests of thyroid hormones in serum' which was approved by that Association for publication (Solomon, Benotti, De Groot, Greer, Pilleggi, Pittman, Robbens, Selenkow, Sterling, and Volpe, 1972). Those proposals deal with the estimation of serum thyroid hormones (total and free) and with tests related to
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical pathology
دوره 28 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975