Hemostasis

Platelet Satellitism in Peripheral Blood Smear

Platelet satellitism in blood smear: platelet adhesion to neutrophils in EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia. Clinical case of a 71-year-old female patient.

Platelet satellitism. A 71-year-old female patient with moderately severe stenosing atherosclerosis of the lower extremities; uncompensated dyslipidemia.

🙏 The images were kindly provided by Olga Shestakova, a clinical laboratory diagnostics physician at St. Luke’s Central City Hospital (V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky), Koryazhma, Arkhangelsk Oblast.