Blood, 1966, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 521-526.
© 1966 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Immunofluorescence of Megakaryocytes in the
Thrombocytopenic Purpuras
F. PIZZI 1,
P. M. CARRARA 1,
A. ALDEGHI 1, and
S. ERIDANI 1
1 Department of Clinical Medicine of the University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
The fluorescent antibody technic was applied to the study of thrombocytopenic purpuras with a presumable immunologic pathogenesis.
The results of the investigation suggest the hypothesis that some plasma protein material is strongly adherent to the surface of megakaryocytes in more
than 50 per cent of cases of chronic ITP.
Submitted on April 27, 1965
Accepted on October 25, 1965