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Arneth's count [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
DEF

Method of determining what percentages of neutrophils in a population have each number of nuclear lobes or segments between one and five; normally over 75 per cent should have two or three lobes. An increase in the percentages with fewer lobes, called a shift to the left, is seen in bacterial infections, whereas an increased number with hypersegmentation of the nuclei, called a shift to the right, is seen in cobalamin and folate deficiency.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
DEF

Formule qui permet de mesurer le degré de segmentation nucléaire (nombre de lobes) des granulocytes; elle se traduit graphiquement par la courbe d'Arneth.

Spanish

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