Platelet adherence surrounding leucocytes in a rosette formation or platelet satellitism is a rare phenomenon. This finding has been observed almost exclusively in Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid treated blood at room temperature. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is not fully understood. In many reports of platelet satellitism platelets clump to polymorphonuclear neutrophils in healthy...

platelet adherence surrounding leucocytes in a rosette formation or platelet satellitism is a rare phenomenon. this finding has been observed almost exclusively in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid treated blood at room temperature. the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is not fully understood. in many reports of platelet satellitism platelets clump to polymorphonuclear neutrophils in healthy ...

Platelet adherence to polymorphonuclear plasma m#{149}mbranes. Phagocytosis of leukocytes, or so-called platelet satellitplatelets was also observed. In vivo and ism, has, to our knowkdge, been reported in vitro platelet functions were normal. in only four patients. We had the opporPlatelet satellitism is an in vitro phenomtunity to study this phenomenon in two enon, the cause of which is unkno...

Platelet satellitosis of polymorphonuclear cells is a phenomenon induced or enhanced by the anticoagulant EDTA. In contrast with previously reported studies, the subject in the present case did not demonstrate platelet satellitism but was profoundly pseudothrombocytopenic owing to platelet phagocytosis. Virtually all polymorphonuclear leukocytes and monocytes contained numerous ingested platele...

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130060 Platelet satellitism is an in vitro phenomenon involving platelet rosetting around mature granulocytes that is observed exclusively in edetic acid (EDTA)-treated peripheral blood at room temperature(1). The precise underlying mechanism of platelet satellitism remains to be fully elucidated but the current explanations include an immunologic mechanism, characteriz...

BACKGROUND Platelet satellitism is a phenomenon of unknown etiology of aggregating platelets around polymorphonuclear neutrophils and other blood cells which causes pseudothrombocytopenia, visible by microscopic examination of blood smears. It has been observed so far in about a hundred cases in the world. CASE SUBJECT AND METHODS Our case involves a 73-year-old female patient with a urinary ...