Guidelines for blood grouping and red cell antibody testing during pregnancy

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Voak, D ^b   Mitchell, R ^b   Bowell, P ^a   Letsky, E ^a   De Silva, M ^a   Whittle, M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DELIVERY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; STANDARD;

BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOANTIBODIES; PREGNANCY; RHO(D) IMMUNE GLOBULIN;

EID: 0030111339     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.1996.d01-518.x     Document Type: Review

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