A simple and sensitive erythroblast scoring system to identify fetal cells in maternal blood

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-73

  Cha, Donghyun ^a   Hogan, Brad ^a   Bohmer, Ralph M ^a   Bianchi, Diana W ^a   Johnson, Kirby L ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemoglobin staining; Morphology; Nucleated red blood cell; Prenatal diagnosis; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

CD15 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRIGHTNESS; CALCULATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DENSITY GRADIENT; ERYTHROBLAST; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE STRUCTURE; FETUS CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRISOMY 21;

ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MICROMANIPULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 0037239490     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.515     Document Type: Article

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