Performance characteristics of blast flagging on the Cell Dyn 4000 haematology analyser

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 347-351

  Hoedemakers, R M J ^a   Pennings, J M A ^a   Hoffmann, J J M L ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blast; Blood smear; Cell Dyn 4000; Confidence fraction; Haematology analyser

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0033429492     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.1999.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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