Prognostic significance of smudge cell percentage in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Facts or artifacts? Methodological considerations and literature review

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Measuring FGF23 in clinical practice: dream or reality?
4. Reviews
5. Fibroblast growth factor 23: translating analytical improvement into clinical effectiveness for tertiary prevention in chronic kidney disease
6. Pursuing appropriateness of laboratory tests: a 15-year experience in an academic medical institution
7. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
8. Moving average quality control of routine chemistry and hematology parameters – a toolbox for implementation
9. Practical application of European biological variation combined with Westgard Sigma Rules in internal quality control
10. Total bilirubin assay differences may cause inconsistent treatment decisions in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia
11. Early predictors of abnormal MRI patterns in asphyxiated infants: S100B protein urine levels
12. Interlaboratory comparison study of immunosuppressant analysis using a fully automated LC-MS/MS system
13. Analytical evaluation and bioclinical validation of new aldosterone and renin immunoassays
14. Improving clinical performance of urine sediment analysis by implementation of intelligent verification criteria
15. Clinical evaluation of the OC-Sensor Pledia calprotectin assay
16. Serous body fluid evaluation using the new automated haematology analyser Mindray BC-6800Plus
17. Analysis of cryoproteins with a focus on cryofibrinogen: a study on 103 patients
18. Reference Values and Biological Variations
19. Within-subject biological variation estimates using an indirect data mining strategy. Spanish multicenter pilot study (BiVaBiDa)
20. Short-term biological variation of serum glial fibrillary acidic protein
21. Reference ranges for GDF-15, and risk factors associated with GDF-15, in a large general population cohort
22. Serum GFAP – reference interval and preanalytical properties in Danish adults
23. Determination of pediatric reference limits for 10 commonly measured autoantibodies
24. Hematology and Coagulation
25. Arterial and venous blood sampling is equally applicable for coagulation and fibrinolysis analyses
26. Infectious Diseases
27. Free urinary sialic acid levels may be elevated in patients with pneumococcal sepsis
28. Letters to the Editor
29. Thyroid stimulating hormone: biased estimate of allowable bias
30. Letter to the Editor relating to Clin Chem Lab Med 2022;60(9):1365–72
31. Reply to the Letter of Sun et al. [1] relating to Clin Chem Lab Med 2022;60(9):1365–72
32. Prognostic significance of smudge cell percentage in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Facts or artifacts? Methodological considerations and literature review
33. Detection of a monoclonal component after pediatric liver transplantation: a case report
34. Reporting magnesium critical results: clinical impact on pregnant women and neonates
35. Congress Abstracts
36. 54th National Congress of the Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (SIBioC – Laboratory Medicine)