Effect of specimen collection on routine coagulation assays and D-dimer measurement

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2150-2152

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 7044239520     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.036244     Document Type: Article

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