Learn about the morphology of giant platelets in blood smears and the causes of errors during impedance cell counting on hematology analyzers.
🔍Giant platelet. 😯Its diameter even exceeds that of a red blood cell. 📌An abundance of such platelet forms can lead to incorrect counting by hematology analyzers that use only the impedance method.
🙏 The publication was kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Tanya Stepanova, Volgograd.
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