Is flow cytometry accurate enough to screen platelet autoantibodies?

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-518

  Hézard, Nathalie ^b   Simon, Gérard ^b   Macé, Catherine ^b   Jallu, Vincent ^b   Kaplan, Cécile ^b   Nguyen, Philippe ^a  

^a SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 39749169125     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01556.x     Document Type: Article

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