A Methodical Approach to Interpreting the Red Blood Cell Parameters of the Complete Blood Count.
A methodical approach to interpreting the panel of complete blood count (CBC) results helps to ensure that spurious results are detected and corrected before results are reported and helps to ensure that no results are overlooked in a diagnostic analysis of the results. The steps to interpreting the...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Laboratory Science Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 173 - 186 |
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| Formato: | case study equations & formulas tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Summer2017
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