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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 3.
Published in final edited form as: Platelets. 2020 May 18;31(5):580–588. doi: 10.1080/09537104.2020.1763939

Figure 3: SEM of arterial thrombi taken from patients by thrombectomy.

Figure 3:

SEM images show A) single and aggregated platelets (white arrows) and fibrin in an arterial thrombus; an example of the appearance of the outside of a contracted blood clot or thrombus; B) polyhedrocytes (compressed polyhedral erythrocytes) in an arterial thrombus; an example of the interior of a contracted blood clot. Scale bars = 10 μm. Image credit: from the laboratory of John W. Weisel: Rafael R. Khismatullin and Rustem I. Litvinov.