[Estimation of serum lipids: method without extraction adapted to autoanalysis (author's transl)].

An entirely automatic method, without prior extraction, is described for the determination of total serum lipids by a nephelemetric method. The results are compared with those obtained by Canal's method. There is a good correlation between the two technics. With a similar concentration of lipid the respective quantities of cholesterol and triglyceride do not intervene in the flocculation. The respective influence of the bilirubin concentration, hemolysis, and the concentration and nature of the serum proteins is considered. This method should permit simultaneous autoanalysis of the three parameters of classical lipid investigation: total lipids, triglycerides and cholesterol.