Current Thyroglobulin Autoantibody (TgAb) Assays Often Fail to Detect Interfering TgAb that Can Result in the Reporting of Falsely Low/Undetectable Serum Tg IMA Values for Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Carole A. Spencer,Ivana Petrovic,Shireen Fatemi

Current Thyroglobulin Autoantibody (TgAb) Assays Often Fail to Detect Interfering TgAb that Can Result in the Reporting of Falsely Low/Undetectable Serum Tg IMA Values for Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

2011

Carole A. Spencer
Ivana Petrovic
Shireen Fatemi

A comparison of four thyroglobulin autoantibody methods found that the use of manufacturer-recommended cut-offs was unreliable for detecting interfering thyroglobulin autoantibodies.

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Tumor marker
Autoantibody
Immunoassay
Antibody
Cancer
Thyroid cancer
Endocrinology
Thyroglobulin
Immunology
Autoimmunity
Internal medicine
Medicine
Radioimmunoassay
Assay interference
False Negative Reactions

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