Re: Band neutrophils values in Pregnancy

From: Paul Prior MD (pprior@earthlink.net)
Wed May 10 23:10:54 2000


On Wed, 10 May 2000 07:43:14 -0500, Robert J Woolley <wooll005@tc.umn.edu> wrote:

>The identification of a subset of neutrophils as "bands" is obsolete.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.

Bob, this is news to me. Is the concept of "left shift" therefore rendered obsolete as well? Is there a place for manual differentials at all therefore?

On what basis is this claim made?

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