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Quick's test III

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Intravenous hippuric acid test for liver function. This may be the same as Quick's test II.

Bibliography

  • A. J. Quick, H. N. Ottenstein and H. Weltchek:
    Synthesis of hippuric acid in man following intravenous injection of sodium benzoate.
    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York, 1938, 38: 77-78.

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