Leukocytosis is Proportional to HELLP Syndrome Severity: Evidence for an Inflammatory Form of Preeclampsia

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 768-771

  Terrone, Dom A ^a   Rinehart, Brian K ^a   May, Warren L ^a   Moore, Amanda ^a   Magann, Everett F ^a   Martin Jr , James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LINEAR MODELS; PLATELET COUNT; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034244184     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200008000-00005     Document Type: Article

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