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- Title
A meal served cold.
- Authors
Fayand, Antoine; Barreau, Sylvain; Terrier, Benjamin; Chapuis, Nicolas
- Abstract
A 79-year-old man presented to the hospital with painful and necrotic leg ulcers, petechiae of the ankles and a livedoid rash of the lower limbs. A full blood count showed a haemoglobin concentration of 128 g/l, leucocytes 8.39 × 10 SP 9 sp /l and platelets 93 × 10 SP 9 sp /l. Examination of a blood film revealed platelet clumps and some pale lilac amorphous deposits between red blood cells; there were also many neutrophils with compressed or distorted nuclei due to phagocytosis of these precipitates (images, May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain, ×100 objective). Cryoglobulins are known to potentially interfere in the leucocyte or platelet count.
- Subjects
BLOOD cell count; ERYTHROCYTES; CELL populations; BLOOD testing; DISEASE relapse
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2020, Vol 190, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjh.16634