[Stability study and external quality assessment scheme implementation for complement components dosage on EDTA plasma].

Although the use of EDTA-containing collection tubes is known to stabilize the complement analytes and to make the results more reliable, no external quality assessment (EQA) scheme based on EDTA plasma samples is available to date in France. Consequently, a number of clinical laboratories currently participate to EQA program on samples whose matrix is different from their routine practice. The aim of this work was to offer a new external quality assessment scheme, as an inter-laboratory exchange (ILE).

Effectiveness of intensive insulin therapy by multiple daily injections and continuous subcutaneous infusion: a comparison study in type 2 diabetes with conventional insulin regimen failure.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of two intensified insulin regimens, i.e., pump delivery versus multiple daily injections in patients with type 2 diabetes not optimally controlled with conventional insulin therapy.

Prostatic neuroendocrine tumor in multiple endocrine neoplasia Type 2B.

We report the unusual occurrence of a neuroendocrine prostatic tumor in two young males with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) 2B. Immunohistochemistry of the tumor markers may help differentiate a primary neuroendocrine prostate tumor from the metastasis of a medullary thyroid carcinoma of poor prognosis. MEN 2B hallmarks (i.