Coexistence of erythrocyte agglutination and EDTA-dependent platelet clumping in a patient with thymoma and plasmocytoma

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-162

  Bizzaro, Nicola ^a,b   Florin, Francesco ^a  

^a Regione Piemonte USL 49   (Italy)

^b Ctro Regionale Specializzato P   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTICOAGULATION; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYALGIA; PLASMACYTOMA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THYMOMA;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PLATELETS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EDETIC ACID; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMACYTOMA; PLATELET AGGREGATION; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032911241     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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