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Internal Medicine

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80-year-old male who had a second- and third-degree burn injury was found to have an automated platelet's count of 980,000 while a manual analysis revealed it is 165,000. This is a heat-induced fragmentation of RBCS causing a false automated reading of the platelets.



Sundus Basheer
Apoorva Pandharpurkar
Shafaq Taj
Seif Hayek
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