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This is an image of pigment formation in stored blood. There are pigmented intracellular trophozoites as well as non-pigmented extracellular structures, or platelets. When you look at these together, it can be difficult to distinguish between them. But, if you look carefully at the platelets, they seem to be amorphous structures. More...