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Specimen Collection, Storage, and Transmission to the Laboratory for Hematological Tests

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  1. Department of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno, 545-8585, Osaka, Japan

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Tatsumi, N., Miwa, S. & Lewis, S.M. Specimen Collection, Storage, and Transmission to the Laboratory for Hematological Tests. Int J Hematol 75, 261–268 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982039

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