Case report: Immunoglobulin M-mediated, temperature-dependent neutrophil agglutination as a cause of pseudoneutropenia

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 92-95

  Carr Jr , Marcus E ^a,b   Whitehead, Jackie ^a   Carlson, Patricia ^a   Todd, William ^a   Orcutt, James ^a   Wallace, Hugh ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HUNTER HOLMES MCGUIRE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated blood cell counting; Leukopenia; White cell clumping

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THROMBOCYTE AGGLUTINATION;

EID: 0030020529     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199602000-00008     Document Type: Article

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