Pre-operative hematological profile: Current practice

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 542-543

  Alam, Maqbool ^a   Saqib, Mohammad ^a   ul Haq, Imran ^a  

^a Sharourah Armed Forces Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROBABILITY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0142042552     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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