Oncohematology

Giant Platelets in Secondary Myelofibrosis

A clinical case of a 72-year-old female patient with essential thrombocythemia and secondary myelofibrosis: giant platelets and anisopoikilocytosis in a blood smear.

Patient, 72 years old. Diagnosis: essential thrombocythemia progressing to secondary myelofibrosis. Large platelets in the blood smear. 🙏 Photos kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital named after F.S. Ankudinov