A multicenter study evaluating three methods for counting residual WBCs in WBC-reduced blood components: Nageotte hemocytometry, flow cytometry, and microfluorometry

Transfusion

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 513-520

  Dzik, Sunny ^a   Moroff, G ^b   Dumont, L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MICROFLUOROMETRY; MULTICENTER STUDY;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CYTOPHOTOMETRY; ERYTHROCYTES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0034081591     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40050513.x     Document Type: Article

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