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A proposal of ready-made interpretative comments applicable to serum protein electrophoresis Volume 64, issue 4, Juillet-Août 2006

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Laboratoire de biochimie, Centre hospitalier de Roanne, Service de biochimie, Hôpital Lucien Hussel, Vienne, Service de biologie, Centre hospitalier de Cahors, Laboratoire de biologie, Centre Hospitalier St-Joseph-St-Luc, Lyon, Service de biochimie, Centre hospitalier J. Monod, Flers, Service de biologie, Centre hospitalier de Rodez, Laboratoire de biochimie spécialisée, Nantes

Zone electrophoresis for separation and quantification of serum proteins is useful in numerous pathological situations to make clinical diagnostics, to follow the evolution of a disease or to evaluate the efficiency of a treatment. The biologist must apply professional recommendations according to the official nomenclature of biological analysis. He must attach a comment to each result in order to help the physician to perform the best interpretation of the results. To answer those needs, a work of standardization of these comments has been realized by a group of biologists. They are members of the national college of biologists (CNBH). All the commentaries are assembled in a thesaurus which could be a base of ready-made comments, favouring the interpretation of serum protein electrophoresis results.