Hematology all time.

A picture is worth a thousand words and this is so true in terms of microscopic structures. Our understanding is greatly increased when we see a picture rather than reading only the description. In this post, I shall take you through the imaging of platelets and megakaryocytes. I was little occupied last month and so I could not post regularly. Sorry for that. Imaging of platelets and megakaryocytes has come a long way since nineteenth century when simple microscopes were used. Max Johan Sigismund Schultze, German microscopist anatomist, was the first to give the accurate description platelets in 1865. Giulio Bizzozero was an Italian doctor and medical researcher. He was the first   person who coined the term ‘platelets’ and also demonstrated their role in hemostasis and thrombosis in 1882. Any idea on what their descriptions were based on? They viewed unstained samples in simple light microscope, so their observations were restricted to high contrast morphological feature