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ea0026p13 | Adrenal cortex | ECE2011

Redefinition of age and sex specific reference intervals of eight serum steroids by liquid chromatography: tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS)

Fanelli F , Belluomo I , Di Lallo V D , Baccini M , Casadio E , Gasparini D Ibarra , Gambineri A , Pasquali R , Pagotto Uberto

The use of LC–MS/MS quantitative methods in clinical and research laboratories is becoming a well established reality that may overcome specificity and accuracy limits of immunoassays. Nevertheless, among different LC–MS/MS methods an agreement on the values that are to be considered normal or pathologic has not been reached yet, and this is mainly due to differences in LC–MS/MS methods, to the poor or absent availability of reference material and to the selecti...