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Clinical Chemistry 43: 548, 1997;
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(Clinical Chemistry. 1997;43:548.)
© 1997 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

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Adhesive Labels Cause High Thyroxine Results

Christian Bieglmayera and Georg Mustafa

Univ. of Vienna Med. School, Clin. Inst. for Med. and Chem. Lab. Diagnostics, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Währingergürtel 18–20, A 1090 Vienna, Austria
a Author for correspondence.


To the Editor:

Recently, we identified serum samples from seven patients with no clinical signs of thyroidal illness with borderline to normal thyrotropin (TSH) (0.13–2.14 mU/L; TSH-Ultra, Auto-DELFIA; Wallac, Turku, Finland) and normal free thyroxine (FT4) (12–21 pmol/L; FT4-Amerlex MAB; Johnson and Johnson, Amersham, UK) but implausibly high T4 [339–387 nmol/L; ES700; Boehringer Mannheim (BM), Mannheim, Germany]. The results were confirmed by reanalyses with different lots . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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