Printable Test Catalog - OU Medicine

[KLCHAIN] KAPPA/LAMBDA LIGHT CHAINS
SPECIMEN REQUIRED: Serum at room temperature
TUBE OR CONTAINER: Red or Gold
SPECIAL HANDLING: Stable at room temperature for 7 days or
longer if frozen at -20 C or lower
Patient should fast for 8 hrs prior to
collection
SPECIMEN VOLUME: 0.5 ml
MINIMUM VOLUME: 0.2 mL
TEST INCLUDES: Quantitative kappa chains, lambda chains and
kappa/lambda ratio
TEST AVAILABILITY: Daily
TURNAROUND TIME: 3-4 days
REFERENCE RANGE: Free Kappa light chains: 3.3-19.4 mg/L
Free Lambda light chains: 5.71-26.30 mg/dl
Kappa/Lambda free light chain ratio: 0.26-1.65
OTHER NAMES: Free Light Chains; Kappa Free Light Chains; Kappa/
Lambda Free Light Chains; Lambda Free Light
Chains; FLC; sFLC; Freelite
METHODOLOGY: Immunologic
CPT: 83883 x 2
[KLCHAINU] KAPPA/LAMBDA LIGHT CHAINS UR
SPECIMEN REQUIRED: Urine at room temperature (random or 24 hr)
TUBE OR CONTAINER: Urine Container or "P" container
SPECIAL HANDLING: Stable at room temperature for 7 days or
longer if frozen at -20 C or lower
SPECIMEN VOLUME: 0.5 ml
MINIMUM VOLUME: 0.2 mL
TEST INCLUDES: Quantitative kappa chains, lambda chains and
kappa/lambda ratio
TEST AVAILABILITY: Daily
TURNAROUND TIME: 3-4 days
METHODOLOGY: Nephelometry
CPT: 83883 x 2
[KOH] Fungal Prep (KOH)
SPECIMEN REQUIRED: Scrapings of skin, nail, or other vaginal
secretions
COLLECTION:
NAILS: Cleanse area with 70% alcohol; With a sterile blade,
take deep scrapings of the nail
SKIN: Cleanse area with 70% alcohol; With a sterile blade,
scrape the skin at the border of the active lesion and
normal tissue
VAGINAL SECRETIONS: Submit specimen in a tightly sealed
sterile container
SPECIAL HANDLING: Indicate specimen source
Submit specimen in sterile tightly capped