Clinical significance of detection of immature platelets: Comparison between percentage of reticulated platelets as detected by flow cytometry and immature platelet fraction as detected by automated measurement

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-184

  Koike, Yukako ^a   Miyazaki, Koji ^b   Higashihara, Masaaki ^b   Kimura, Emiko ^a   Jona, Masahiro ^a   Uchihashi, Kinya ^c   Masuda, Akiko ^a   Kandabashi, Koji ^a   Kurokawa, Mineo ^a   Yatomi, Yutaka ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SYSMEX CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; RNA;

AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMATURE PLATELET FRACTION; LETTER; MALE; MAY HEGGLIN ANOMALY; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOFIBROSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULUM CELL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

AGED; BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 74049124867     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01364.x     Document Type: Letter

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