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Falsely decreased ferritin concentrations in two patients with haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: A case report

The high-dose hook effect, or prozone effect, can lead to negative or falsely lowered plasma ferritin results. Here, cases of a 16-year-old boy and a 70-year-old woman with haemophagocytic lymphohystiocytosis with extremely high concentrations of plasma ferritin (387,000 μg/L and 138,000 μg/L, respe...

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Autores principales: Roozen, Geert, Revet, Ingrid, Raymakers, Reinier, Kemperman, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30027777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004563218793166