Pneumatic transport is critical for leukaemic patients with major leukocytosis: What precautions to measure lactate dehydrogenase, potassium and aspartate aminotransferase?

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-96

  Guiheneuf, Raphael ^a   Vuillaume, Isabelle ^a   Mangalaboyi, Jacques ^a   Launay, David ^a   Berthon, Céline ^a   Maury, J Claude ^a   Maboudou, Patrice ^a   Rousseaux, Jean ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; POTASSIUM;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERLEUKOCYTOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PHLEBOTOMY; PLASMA; PNEUMATIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SERUM;

EID: 75149164450     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2009.009044     Document Type: Article

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