Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine series--controversies in laboratory medicine: insights into B-type natriuretic peptide and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide measurements.

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Published in MedGenMed on May 31, 2006

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Robert H Christenson1, W H Wilson Tang

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1: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. rchristenson@umm.edu

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