A laboratoty artefact to detect: The EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia;Un artefact de laboratoire à dépister: La pseudothrombocytopénie liée à l'EDTA

Annales de Biologie Clinique

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-93

  Gerome P ^a   Cardon, N ^a   Crevon, L ^a   Ehrmann, P ^a   Dusseau, J Y ^a   Masseron, T ^a   Chaulet, J F ^a   Bercion, R ^a  

^a Hop d'Instruct Armees Desgenettes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTIFACT; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDETIC ACID; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0037274309     PISSN: 00033898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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