Processing of noninflammatory synovial fluids with hyaluronidase for cytospin preparations improves the accuracy of differential counts

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 256-258

  Moreno, Mario J ^a   Clayburne, Gilda ^a   Schumacher Jr , H Ralph ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystals; Joint fluid; Monocytes; Neutrophils

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE; HYALURONIDASE; URATE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOUT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VASCULITIS; VISCOSITY;

CENTRIFUGATION; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0034028924     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(200004)22:4<256::AID-DC13>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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