since venous blood platelet count in surviving animals is inversely proportional to the number of the tumor cells which adhere to the vascular endothelium , one can deduce that tumor cell embolism is an immediate result of a massively occurring disseminated intravascular coagulation ( dic ) which may be induced by i.v . injection of thromboplastic active carcinosarcoma cells and leads primarily to a drastic platelet count reduction .
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