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Technical Notes

Prospective validation of an automatic reflex test for identifying spurious elevations of mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration due to the presence of cold agglutinins

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Pages 598-600 | Received 11 May 2021, Accepted 19 Jul 2021, Published online: 04 Aug 2021

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