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Adler granules

Adler granules (the Czechoslovak hematologist O. of A. Adler, 1879-1932) – azurophilic grains in cytoplasm of segmentoyaderny leukocytes, monocytes and lymphocytes. Most often Adler granules are observed at a gargoilizm.

 
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