The determination of total calcium in urine: a comparison between the atomic absorption and the ortho-cresolphtalein complexone methods

• Main Authors: Lucia Simas Parentoni (Author), Ronise Carla Sass Pozeti (Author), José Francisco Figueiredo (Author), Eliana Cotta de Faria (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica, 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Atomic absorption spectrometry has been recommended as the reference method for the analysis of total calcium in body fluids and the ortho-cresolphtalein complexone (o-CPC) method has been widely used as the field method. We evaluated the performance of the Mega-Bayer, a fully automatic selective an...