Determining the Significance of Persistent Lymphocytosis

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 267-282

  Avery, Anne C ^a   Avery, Paul R ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD2 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; CD7 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADDISON DISEASE; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BABESIOSIS; CAT DISEASE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLONAL VARIATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG DISEASE; FILARIASIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEISHMANIASIS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; PROGNOSIS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33847350938     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2006.11.001     Document Type: Review

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