Blood component fractionation: Manual versus automatic procedures

Transfusion and Apheresis Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-28

  Pasqualetti, Daniela ^a   Ghirardini, Alessandro ^b   Arista, Maria Cristina ^a   Vaglio, Stefania ^a   Fakeri, Azis ^a   Waldman, Alan A ^c   Girelli, Gabriella ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Waldman Biomedical Consultancy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; EVALUATION; FRACTIONATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1642518223     PISSN: 14730502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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