title: PSA assay of dried blood samples from the ear lobe on a filter paper with special reference to prostatic mass screening.
abstract: To eliminate complicated procedures for taking blood samples in the field work for prostatic mass screening, we developed a method for PSA testing using blood samples taken from the ear lobe and dried on a filter paper. The stability, the diagnostic efficacy, and the cost-benefit effect of the method were confirmed in hospitalized patients, as well as in subjects from our mass screening program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004431:Ear, External; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen