(C) – Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, peripheral blood smear: In CLL, the lymphocytes are excessively fragile. These lymphocytes are easily destroyed during slide preparation, forming ...

(A) – Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), peripheral blood smear, mostly affects children less than 10 years of age. (B) – Acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) with Auer rods ...

Red cell autoagglutination is the process whereby red cells clump together forming aggregates. This is seen in Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, cold agglutinin disease and Infection ...

Quick scan on low power through entire slide for adequate distribution of cells then Check for platelets clumping & atypical cells at feathered edge. (if there are platelets clumping ...

First add 4 mg of either disodium or dipotassium EDTA salt to 100 ml of deionized water. then add 0.2 ml of this solution to clean vials, then put these vials in incubator or hot air ...

P-LCR means Platelet large cell ratio and it’s calculated in automated blood analyzers using this formula: P-LCR = P-LCC/PLT. PLT = Total Platelets Count. P-LCC = platelets ...

Conditions which cause platelet activation and aggregation in a sample (or a patient) may also promote fibrin formation by activation of the coagulation cascade. Shown above is a ...

It’s mature red blood cell with a clearing on one side and a concentrated area of hemoglobin on the other side Clinical Conditions: Infantile pyknocytosis Infantile viremia G6PD ...

  Chronic myelogenous leukemia (also called chronic myeloid leukemia) is a rare cancer that affects bone marrow. That’s where blood cells are produced. CML leads to the production ...

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia : The peripheral blood smear shows an absolute neutrophilia without the significant left shift, vacuolization, or toxic granulation usually associated ...

Hemoglobin C (HbC) is an abnormal hemoglobin in which substitution of a glutamic acid with a lysine at the 6th position of the β-globin chain This mutation is either heterozygous ...

The RBC in the center of the field contains several Howell-Jolly bodies, or inclusions of nuclear chromatin remnants. There is also a nucleated RBC just beneath this RBC. Abnormal ...