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Acta Clinica Belgica
International Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine
Volume 71, 2016 - Issue 6
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Case Report

Hb Melusine and Hb Athens-Georgia: potentially underreported in the Belgian population? Four cases demonstrating the lack of detection using common CE-HPLC methods either for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) analysis or Hb variant screening

Bart PeetersDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Inger BrandtDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
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Koenraad DesmetDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Cornelis L. HarteveldClinical Genetics Laboratory for Diagnostic Genome Analysis, Hemoglobinopathies Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Davy KiefferDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Pages 458-461 | Published online: 30 Jun 2016

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