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An unusual case of sodium citrate-dependent artifactual platelet count.

Francesco DimaGian Luca SalvagnoElisa DaneseDino VeneriGiuseppe Lippi
Published in: Interventional medicine & applied science (2019)
Unlike previous occasional reports of concomitant EDTA- and sodium citrate-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia, we first describe a paradigmatic case of artifactual platelet count attributable to platelet clumping and satellitism, exclusively developing in blood anticoagulated with sodium citrate.
Keyphrases
  • peripheral blood
  • emergency department