Discriminating between Iron Deficiency Anemia and Anemia of Chronic Disease Using Traditional Indices of Iron Status vs Transferrin Receptor Concentration

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 112-118

  Wians Jr , Frank H ^a,b   Urban, Jill E ^a   Keffer, Joseph H ^a   Kroft, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia of chronic disease; Ferritin; Iron deficiency anemia; Iron studies; Receiver operating characteristic curve; Transferrin receptor

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLARITY; PATHOLOGY; ROC CURVE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0035220962     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/6L34-V3AR-DW39-DH30     Document Type: Article

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