Alcoholic fatty liver disease and alcoholic liver cirrhosis may be differentiated with mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width

Platelets

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 584-585

  Lee, Woong Soo ^a   Kim, Think You ^b  

^a Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; PLATELET DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

BLOOD PLATELETS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 77958021439     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2010.500423     Document Type: Letter

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