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A picture of what ET looks like under the microscope.

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The tiny bright purple dots are platelets. As you can see some of them are clumping together. The larger pale purple dots are red blood cells. When a manual platelet count is done this is exactly what they are looking at.

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Mostew

How fascinating .thanks

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ksos

Really interesting. Thanks!

Kim

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Elzbietta

Thank you for sharing. Interesting!

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lizzziep

Thank you! I'e often wondered!

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azaelea

Thank you very much. Always wondered what the clumping Platelets look like. Very interesting.

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clubdino in reply to azaelea

I can show you a real platelet clump...those are just baby clumps. I will start a new post with that picture.

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