TY - JOUR AU - Lear, Alan AB - A.J.C.P. • April 1982 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 30 fl) are never spuriously high in PRP, rocyte fragments (Fig. 3fl of original References when compared with the results obtained article). This would have shown the be­ 1. Le Tohic F, Prost-Dvojakovic RJ, Le by optic microscopy. Moreover, elec­ ginning of the histogram, which is not Mehn R, Samama M: Problemes poses tronic microscopy studies have never re­ visible on the curve produced by the par la mesure des volumes plaquet- vealed cytoplasmic fragments of blast Coulter S+. taires dans les grandes thrombopenies. cells in the cases of acute leukemia we Nouv Rev Fr Hematol 20:155-171, have studied. It would have been inter­ MONIQUE DUMOULIN-LAGRANGE, 2. Zucker-Franklin D., Karpatkin S: Red- esting if the authors had shown curves PH.D . cell and platelet fragmentation in id­ obtained with the Channelyser C 1000® PROFESSOR MEYER SAMAMA iopathic autoimmune thrombocyto­ from the PRP of their leukemic patients, Laboratoire Central dHematologic penic purpura. N Engl J Med 297:517- as they have for the cases with eryth­ Hotel-Dieu, Paris, France 523, 1977 The Authors' Reply had cytoplasm identical to that of blasts, less-pronounced fragmentation in ITP rather than that of erythrocytes or plate­ or TI - Environmental Plea: Eliminate Mercurimetric Chloride Tests JO - American Journal of Clinical Pathology DO - 10.1093/ajcp/77.4.512a DA - 1982-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/environmental-plea-eliminate-mercurimetric-chloride-tests-EiodivnxRy SP - 512 EP - 513 VL - 77 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -