Efficiency of premarital screening of beta-thalassemia trait using MCH rather than MCV in the population of fars province, Iran

Haematologia

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-133

  Karimi, M ^a   Rasekhi, A R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PALLOR; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IRAN; MASS SCREENING; PREMARITAL EXAMINATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036905809     PISSN: 00176559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855902320387961     Document Type: Article

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