Pooled platelet concentrates or apheresis platelets?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1848-1849

  Dumont, Larry J ^a   Szczepiorkowski, Zbigniew M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD DONOR; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

EID: 84877591610     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1302634     Document Type: Letter

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