Cell counter - Related abnormalities

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 325-334

  Brigden, Malcolm L ^a   Dalal, Bakul I ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL COUNT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERROR; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; REFERENCE VALUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

EID: 0032949071     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/30.5.325     Document Type: Article

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