Assessment of a new immunocytochemical technique in HbF-cell counting by a novel objective evaluation method

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 948-951

  Tsantes, Argirios ^a   Androutsos, Georgios ^a   Bonovas, Stefanos ^a   Vogiatzi, Despina ^a   Meletis, Ioannis ^b   Stamou, Eleni ^c   Stamoulakatou, Alexandra ^c   Paterakis, Georgios ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Agia Sofia Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evaluation method; HbF cell; Immunocytochemical technique; Light microscopy; Target values

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVALUATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNIQUE;

ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; ERYTHROBLASTS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0346219272     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04717.x     Document Type: Article

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