Re: Band neutrophils values in Pregnancy

From: Robert J Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu)
Wed May 10 07:42:29 2000


On Wed, 10 May 2000, Ricardo Savaris wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for the normal values for band neutrophils during
> pregnancy, I ordered an article from Siegel (1981), but the abstract
> doesn't tell much.
>
> For instance,
> A patient, 23ws, 10,000 leuc, 12% bands, no fever, but with low
> abdominal pain. Is this a normal CBC?
>
> So, any help?

The identification of a subset of neutrophils as "bands" is obsolete. It has been shown to be (1) not reproducible from observer to observer, and (2) not predictive of anything, independent of the total number of neutrophils.





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