Automated five-part white blood cell differential counts: Efficiency of software-generated white blood cell suspect flags of the hematology analyzers Sysmex SE-9000, Sysmex NE-8000, and coulter STKS

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 573-577

  Thalhammer Scherrer, Renate ^a,b   Knöbl, Paul ^a,b   Korninger, Lisa ^a,b   Schwarzinger, Ilse ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; PREDICTION; PROMYELOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE;

AUSTRIA; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EFFICIENCY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 17144463591     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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