Your differential WBC count, in addition to your WBC count, provides your doctor with useful information to determine if you are sick, and how to treat you. How would your doctor interpret the following information? (a) Patient X, WBC count of 80,000 wbc/mm3? (b) Patient Y, WBC count of 2,000 wbc/mm3? (c) Patient Z, WBC = 753,000 wbc/mm3. What is the general term for this?

Your differential WBC count, in addition to your WBC count, provides your doctor with useful information to determine if you are sick, and how to treat you. How would your doctor interpret the following information? (a) Patient X, WBC count of 80,000 wbc/mm3? (b) Patient Y, WBC count of 2,000 wbc/mm3? (c) Patient Z, WBC = 753,000 wbc/mm3. What is the general term for this?

Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques 6E

6th Edition

ISBN:9781133893943

Author:ESTRIDGE

Publisher:ESTRIDGE

Chapter1: The Clinical Laboratory

Section1.12: Routine Venipuncture

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