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Navigating between perpendicular drop and tangent skimming methods for M-protein quantification: a call for clarification of guidelines

  • Julien Cabo and Julien Favresse EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Julien Favresse, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinique St-Luc Bouge, Namur, Belgium; and Department of Pharmacy, Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences, Namur Thrombosis and Hemostasis Center, University of Namur, 5000 Namur, Belgium, Phone: +32 81 72 43 91, E-mail:

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  3. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  4. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  5. Research funding: None declared.

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Received: 2023-07-11
Accepted: 2023-09-19
Published Online: 2023-10-02
Published in Print: 2024-02-26

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