The routine use of soluble Lewis antigens in the identification of Lewis system antibodies.

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Approximately 3 percent of the blood samples tested at the authors' laboratory have contained unexpected red cell (RBC) antibodies, of which about one-third have been anti-Le(a) or anti-Le(b). Although these antibodies are usually clinically insignificant, considerable workload was expended in their identification. In hopes of reducing this workload, an alternative approach for identifying these antibodies was...

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