Visual assessment of sample quality: Quo usque tandem?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 513-515

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Cadamuro, Janne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

COLOR VISION; EDITORIAL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

EID: 85037871922     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2017-0867     Document Type: Editorial

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