The Annals as a disseminator of guidelines and promoter of best practice

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 383-385

  Wenham, Philip R ^a  

^a VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; XANTHOCHROMIA;

EID: 84890163435     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563213494149     Document Type: Article

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