Manual and automated methods for the determination of leukocyte counts at extreme low levels: Comparative evaluation of the Nageotte chamber and the Abbott cell Dyn 3500 analyser

Transfusion Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 505-515

  Müller, Thomas H ^a   Döscher, Andrea ^a   Schunter, Friedrich ^a   Scott, Colin Stephen ^b  

^a KLINIKUM OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b ABBOTT GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPE; PLASMA; PLASMAPHERESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD BANKS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0346937684     PISSN: 09553886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-3886(97)00064-7     Document Type: Article

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