Do not forget about pre-analytics in faecal calprotectin measurement!

Clin Chim Acta. 2017 Oct:473:124-126. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2017.08.025. Epub 2017 Aug 25.

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Onze-Lieve Vrouw Hospital Aalst, Aalst, Belgium. Electronic address: matthijs.oyaert@uzgent.be.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, Onze-Lieve Vrouw Hospital Aalst, Aalst, Belgium.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven - University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Onze-Lieve Vrouw Hospital Aalst, Aalst, Belgium. Electronic address: lieve.vanhoovels@olvz-aalst.be.

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Keywords: Extraction buffer stability; Extraction device; Faecal calprotectin; Pre-analytics.

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