Indirect determination of pediatric blood count reference intervals

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 863-872

  Zierk, Jakob ^a   Arzideh, Farhad ^b   Haeckel, Rainer ^c   Rascher, Wolfgang ^a   Rauh, Manfred ^a   Metzler, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood count; Hematology; Indirect determination of reference intervals; Pediatric reference intervals; Reference range

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM;

ADULTHOOD; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; REFERENCE VALUES; SODIUM;

EID: 84882272507     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0684     Document Type: Article

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