Debus Jérôme, Lemaire Pierre, Cussac Vincent, Sisiroi Marinela, Pineau-Vincent Fabienne
Laboratoire d'hématologie-hémostase, Centre hospitalier Le Mans, Le Mans, France.
Service de médecine polyvalente, Centre Hospitalier Le Mans, Le Mans, France.
Ann Biol Clin (Paris). 2017 Aug 1;75(4):450-454. doi: 10.1684/abc.2017.1254.
A 71 year-old woman is admitted to Le Mans hospital center for management of a chronic skin lesion. She has no personal nor familial bleeding history and does not take any medication. In peripheral blood collected with EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra-acetate), the platelet count is elevated and the blood film shows uniformly grey platelets. In sodium citrate-collected blood, platelets show no abnormality. We describe an EDTA-related artifact that is not to be mistaken for grey platelet syndrome.