2015, Cilt 13, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 119-124 |
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An Overview of the Pediatric Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory |
Yasemin Üstündağ, Kağan Huysal |
Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi, Biyokimya, Bursa, Türkiye |
Keywords: Pediatrics, Laboratories, Reference Values, Phlebotomy, Routine diagnostic tests |
Children are quite different from adults not only as structurally, but also their metabolism and in terms
of their response to the diseases. The most important variable is the age of the pediatric patients.
Clinical biochemist must have knowledgeable about the differences in the interpretation and realization
of the testing of sick children. The aim of this review is to present some important preanalytical and
analytical challenges and some exceptions while analyzing pediatric samples broadly.
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