Methodological notes on acquisition and use of close evacuated systems for collection, handling and storage of venous blood samples for laboratory diagnostics;Note metodologiche sull'acquisizione e sull'uso dei sistemi chiusi sottovuoto per il prelievo, il trattamento e la conservazione dei campioni ematici venosi destinati alla diagnostica di laboratorio

Biochimica Clinica

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-311

  Plebani, Mario ^a   Caputo, Marco ^b   Giavarina, Davide ^c   Lippi, Giuseppe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento Servizi di Diagnosi e Cura ULSS 22   (Italy)

^c SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; VENOUS BLOOD;

EID: 84883383004     PISSN: 03930564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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