Clumps of platelets in peripheral blood smear

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Clumps of platelets in peripheral blood smear

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Author: Najmaldin Saki (PhD); Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Pezeshki (MS)
Category: Laboratory Hematology > Basics of automated cell counts > Causes of inaccurate platelet counts
Published Date: 04/02/2018

Presence of clumps of platelets in peripheral blood smear can lead to falsely diagnosis of thrombocytopenia. this phenomenon causes lower automated count than the actual count in the blood. the main reason of this event is anticoagulant EDTA used to obtain patients sample

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