Reticulated platelets: Analytical aspects and clinical utility

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1107-1117

  Hoffmann, Johannes J M L ^a  

^a ABBOTT GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

diagnostic use; immature platelets; megakaryopoiesis; reticulated platelets; thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; CELL ASSAY; CELL MATURATION; CIRCULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; IMMATURE PLATELET ASSAY; MEGAKARYOBLAST; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETICULATED PLATELET; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPOIESIS; BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84903948676     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0165     Document Type: Review

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