Platelet storage pool disorder is a deficiency of:

a. Platelet phospholipids
b. a-Granules
c. Platelet lysosomes
d. b-Granules


ANS: B
Platelet storage pool disorder is a deficiency of a-granules, also called dense bodies.

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