Merits of percentage hypochromic red cells as a marker of functional iron deficiency

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 847-849

  Macdougall, Iain C ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HUMAN; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; HUMANS; IRON; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0032041971     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.4.847     Document Type: Article

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