The TEST 1 automated system: A new method for measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 334-340

  Plebani, Mario ^a,b   De Toni, Stefania ^a   Sanzari, Maria Colomba ^a   Bernardi, Daniela ^a   Stockreiter, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Centre of Biochemical Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated analyzer; Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ICSH reference method; Westergren ESR method

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CITRATE SODIUM; EDETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

EID: 0031751206     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/110.3.334     Document Type: Article

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