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Vortexing specimens to disaggregate platelet clumps in EDTA specimens.

Lillian Mundt
Published in: Laboratory medicine (2024)
Additional patient comfort and safety concerns, as well as concerns over additional specimen collection and processing costs, may be avoided by vortexing and rerunning specimens flagged for platelet clumps when the platelet count is normal.
Keyphrases
  • fine needle aspiration
  • ultrasound guided