Letter: Sex difference in normal neutrophil count.
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Sex Difference in Normal Neutrophil Count
SIR,-I wish to draw attention to a minor inaccuracy in the valuable study on normal haemnatological values by Drs. Barbara J. Bain and J. M. Englad (8 February, p. 306). The significantly lower neutrophil counts in women than in men found by Allen and Alexander' were confined to the postmenopausal age groups and were not a feature of the whole age range 18-65. In fact, in a larger series of blo...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5959.683