Effect of tube filling order on specific coagulation parameters in healthy subjects

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 556-558

  Serin, Erdinc ^a   Bugdayci, Guler ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; PLASMINOGEN; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; CLINICAL LABORATORY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBE;

EID: 36649038572     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/RQ00WJ60KQXAM9B0     Document Type: Article

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