Practice guidelines on the reporting of smudge cells in the white blood cell differential count

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-

  Macdonald, Denis ^a   Richardson, Harold ^a   Raby, Anne ^a  

^a Qual Mgmt Program Laboratory Serv   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE COURSE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEDLINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SMUDGE CELL;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037283163     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Zwiebel JA, Cheeson BD. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: staging and prognostic factors. Semin Oncol. 1998;25(1):42-59.
2. Hematology Committee, Quality Management Program - Laboratory Services, Ontario. Broadsheet: Good Practice Guidelines on the Reporting of Smudge Cells. Toronto, Ontario: QMP-LS; June 26, 2001. Hematology-Morphology Binder: vol 3;sect 1.2:1.