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. 2018 Sep;59(9):509.
doi: 10.11622/smedj.2018114.

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Anselm Chi-Wai Lee  1
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Anselm Chi-Wai Lee. Singapore Med J. 2018 Sep.
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Photomicrographs of peripheral blood films show (a) typical platelet clumping (black arrow) in a case of pseudothrombocytopenia, probably due to exposure to ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid anticoagulant during storage; and (b) degranulated platelets (white arrows) with some appearing as small clumps (circled) in a four-month-old child (Wright’s, × 100).
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