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Test ID: AMBF
Amylase, Body Fluid

Secondary ID A test code used for billing and in test definitions created prior to November 2011

8371

Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful

Evaluation of patients suspected of having acute pancreatitis.

 

If ascites are present, it is occasionally used to demonstrate pancreatic inflammation. If this is true, the level will be at least ten times that of serum.

Method Name A short description of the method used to perform the test

Substrate Kinetic

Reporting Name A shorter/abbreviated version of the Published Name for a test; an abbreviated test name

Amylase, BF

Aliases Lists additional common names for a test, as an aid in searching

Amylase Frac, Body Fluid ORDER 313
Amylase, Macro, Body Fluids ORDER 313