The importance of platelet indexes in discriminating between β-thalassemia trait and iron deficiency anemia

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 235-236

  Timuraǧaoǧlu, Ayşen ^a   Çoban, Erkan ^a   Erbasan, Funda ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ADULT; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VENOUS BLOOD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PLATELETS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SIZE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT;

EID: 2642580611     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077575     Document Type: Article

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