Red cell indices for distinguishing macrocytosis of aplastic anaemia and megaloblastic anaemia

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 375-377

  Gupta, P K ^a   Saxena, Renu ^a,b   Karan, A S ^a   Choudhry, V P ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Macrocytes; Mean corpuscular volume (MCV); Red cell distribution width (RDW)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELLIPTOCYTOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MEGALOCYTOSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PANCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANEMIA, MACROCYTIC; ANEMIA, MEGALOBLASTIC; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCYTOPENIA;

EID: 1142310929     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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