Clinical utility of automated platelet clump count in the screening for ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 3353-3357

  Wu, Wei ^a   Guo, Ye ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Cui, Wei ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Zhang, Shuo ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Automated platelet clump count; Hematology analyzers; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SODIUM; EDETATE DISODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; AUTOMATED PLATELET CLUMP COUNT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLATELET DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; PLATELETCRIT; PSEUDOTHROMBOCYTOPENIA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; EDETIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054864351     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.20.026     Document Type: Article

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