Widespread bruising due to low platelet count

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Widespread bruising (ecchymosis) on the scalp of a 99 year old male patient with a low blood platelet count. Platelets are circulating fragments of blood cell that help to form clots in a bleeding blood vessel.

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Photo credit: © DR P. MARAZZI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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