Platelet cold agglutinins: Flow cytometric analysis

Transfusion Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-224

  Schimmer, A ^a   Mody, M ^a   Sager, M ^a   Garvey, M B ^a   Hogarth, M ^a   Freedman, J ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGLUTINATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; AGGLUTININS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, HUMAN PLATELET; BLOOD PLATELETS; COLD; COLLAGEN; CRYOGLOBULINS; EDETIC ACID; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIIB-IIIA COMPLEX; RISTOCETIN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345759740     PISSN: 09553886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-3886(98)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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