The added value of peripheral blood cell morphology in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases - Part 1: Basic concepts

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 997, 2008, Pages 579-585

  Prokocimer, M ^a   Potasman, I ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ANAMNESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL VACUOLE; CHEDIAK HIGASHI SYNDROME; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EHRLICHIA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEREDITARY HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LEUKOCYTE DISORDER; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAY HEGGLIN ANOMALY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW;

ANEMIA; CELL AGGREGATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTOSIS;

EID: 58149265721     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2008.069609     Document Type: Review

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