[Protective platelet features in fibrocavernous tuberculosis]. / Zashchitnye osobennosti trombotsitov pri fibrozno-kavernoznom tuberkuleze.

Light and electron microscopy was used to study platelets in acute and chronic pulmonary tuberculosis. The structure of platelets was demonstrated to be altered depending on the pattern of a tuberculous process. The ratio of alpha-granules, dense glanules, mitochondria, and lysosomes was also changed. The role of platelets in an immunological process was studied. The redistribution of glanules in the platelets finds its new reflection in the light of the psycho- and neutropic actions of the granules contained.