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Sensitive Oestradiol

Sensitive Oestradiol

Oestradiol is one of the three oestrogen hormones - oestrone, oestriol and estradiol. Estrone is the least abundant.

Tube Serum Gel
ID 12680
Availability Weekly
Additional Information Suspected precocious puberty in females. Confirmation of oestrogen >150 pmol/L in men and postmenopausal women. This test is only available for the analysis of oestrogen in children, adult males and post-menopausal women. Please contact the steroid laboratory Ext: 67043 for further information.
Turn Around 21 days
Send to Specialist Laboratory Medicine
Block 46
St James hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Contact 01132067043
Advice 01132064717, stephen.gibbons@nhs.net
Collection Con Instructions for lab staff: Consult a BMS if sample older than 24hrs. Centrifuge the sample and separate the serum. Store in freezer
Minimum volume: 0.6 mL serum
Ref. Range (Male) <150
Ref. Range (Female) Pre menopausal: 200
Units pmol/L
IP Routine TAT 21 days
GP Acute TAT 21 days
GP Routine TAT 21 days
Telepath LOESE / JOESE
ICE Codes LOESE / JOESE