Platelet satellitism in infectious disease?
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Platelet satellitism in infectious disease?
BACKGROUND Platelet satellitism is a phenomenon of unknown etiology of aggregating platelets around polymorphonuclear neutrophils and other blood cells which causes pseudothrombocytopenia, visible by microscopic examination of blood smears. It has been observed so far in about a hundred cases in the world. CASE SUBJECT AND METHODS Our case involves a 73-year-old female patient with a urinary ...
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Correspondence: Giuseppe Longo, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Oncologiche e Radiologiche, Sezione di Medicina Interna, via Del Pozzo 71, 41100 Modena, Italy. Phone: international +39-059-422782 – Fax: international +39-059-424549 – E-mail: [email protected] aware that some thrombocytopenias of uncertain etiology may be artifactual in particular conditions; spurious thrombocytopenia due to EDTA-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biochemia Medica
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1846-7482
DOI: 10.11613/bm.2015.030