Pseudohyperkalemia identified in a myelofibrosis patient exhibiting giant platelets and nucleated red blood cells [1]

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-59

  Duplessis, C ^a,b   Rakowski, D ^a   Yeung, E ^a   Hopkins, M ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; FUROSEMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; POTASSIUM; PREDNISONE; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MYELOFIBROSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOHYPERKALEMIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 34447257637     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp68057     Document Type: Letter

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