Performance of automated platelet quantification using different analysers in comparison with an immunological reference method in thrombocytopenic patients

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-48

  Trabuio, Ernesto ^a   Valverde, Sara ^b   Antico, Francesco ^a   Manoni, Fabio ^a   Gessoni, Gianluca ^b,c  

^a Laboratorio di Patologia Clinica   (Italy)

^b Servizio di Immunoematologia e Trasfusionale   (Italy)

^c Civil Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Method's correlation; Platelet count; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CD61 ANTIGEN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; IMPEDANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; THROMBOCYTE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 65449120747     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2008.0039-08     Document Type: Article

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