Spurious Automated Platelet Count: Enumeration of Yeast Forms as Platelets by the Cell-DYN 4000

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 882-885

  Latif, Shahnila ^a   Veillon, Diana M ^a   Brown, Donald ^a   Kaltenbach, Jenny ^a   Curry, Sherry ^a   Linscott, Andrea J ^a   Oberle, Arnold ^a   Cotelingam, James D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematology analyzer; Optical and impedance platelet count; Spurious platelet count

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUTAMIDE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; LEUPRORELIN; PIPERACILLIN; QUINAPRIL; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BONE METASTASIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINE CULTURE; YEAST;

EID: 0344395555     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/H2K6E59LYFE63GPB     Document Type: Article

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