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.
A picture of what ET looks like under the micros... - MPN Voice
A picture of what ET looks like under the microscope.
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How fascinating .thanks
Thank you for sharing. Interesting!
Thank you! I'e often wondered!
Thank you very much. Always wondered what the clumping Platelets look like. Very interesting.
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