Spurious elevation of automated platelet counts in secondary acute monocytic leukemia associated with tumor lysis syndrome

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1111-1114

  Li, Shiyong ^a   Salhany, Kevin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD SMEAR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COULTER COUNTER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MONOCYTIC, ACUTE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME;

EID: 0032700306     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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