Elimination of the venous stasis error for routine coagulation testing by transillumination

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 412, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 1482-1484

  Lima Oliveira, G ^a,b,c,d   Salvagno, G L ^a   Lippi, G ^e   Montagnana, M ^a   Scartezini, M ^b   Picheth, G ^b   Guidi, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c MERCOSUL Sector Committee of Clinical Analyses and in vitro Diagnostics CSM 20   (Brazil)

^d Clinic Hospital State of Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; BLEEDING; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; TOURNIQUET; VENOUS STASIS;

BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 79956333080     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2011.04.008     Document Type: Letter

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