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| Title | PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS, SERUM |
| Specimen Requirement | <p>1 SST/1.0 mL serum. After 30 minutes of clotting, promptly centrifuge and refrigerate.</p> |
| Methodology | |
| Stability | Refrigerated 7 days |
| Reference Range | By Report* |
| Turnaround | 2 days |
| Clinical Use | <p>Evaluate serum protein, nutritional status; work up liver disease, including chronic active hepatitis; useful in the evaluation of myeloma, macroglobulinemia of Waldenstrom, collagen diseases, and monoclonal gammopathies; evaluate inflammatory states; evaluate low back pain, arthritis, amyloidosis; evaluate lymphoma, leukemia, anemia.</p> |
| Test Code | SPEMC |
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