Refrigerated storage decreases the white blood cell count and influences the stability of automated differential on the Sysmex SE-9000

Haematologia

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 483-486

  Choi, Jong Weon ^a   Pai, Soo Hwan ^a  

^a Inha University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANALYZER; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; REFRIGERATOR; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REFRIGERATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037944119     PISSN: 00176559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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