Reticulocyte hemoglobin content in the diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 431-436

  Marković, Marica ^a   Majkić Singh, Nada ^b   Subota, Vesna ^a   Mijušković, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Inflammation; Iron deficient anemia; Mean cell volume; Reticulocyte hemoglobin content

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETICULOCYTE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4344661034     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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