Hematologic values and appearances in the healthy fetus, neonate, and child.
Morphologic and laboratory aspects of diagnostic pediatric hematology are reviewed, including developmental hematopoiesis in normal fetal blood, the principal morphologic features unique to examination of pediatric blood samples, special preanalytic considerations for the laboratory, and important analytic interferences common in the pediatric setting.
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Health Services, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
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D001773:Blood Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005312:Fetal Blood / Q000502:physiology*; D006403:Hematologic Tests; D006410:Hematopoiesis / Q000502:physiology*; D006487:Hemostasis / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012016:Reference Values