the round, dark-blue granules known as basophilic stippling
The granules are composed of precipitated ribosomes and mitochondria in immature red blood cells
Basophilic Stippling ...
This smear taken from acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) patient
when we first report the cell we say it’s blast but we don’t specify it until we do other tests but i put ...
Stomatocytes: [fish mouth- like] (RBC’s Alterations)
Seen in patients with: Hereditary stomatocytosis (results in haemolytic anaemia)
Haematopoiesis is the formation of blood cellular components. All cellular blood components are derived from haematopoietic stem cells.
Haematopoiesis
This is Alkaline Urine: notice triple phosphate crystals
These “triple phosphate” crystals look like rectangles, or coffin lids
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Jaundice: is the yellowing of the skin and the eyes
1) Pre-hepatic (hemolytic): The pathology is occurring prior to the liver.
Sickle cell anemia
Spherocytosis
Thalassemia
G6PD deficiency
Hemolytic ...
This is hypochormic microcytic anemia condition
Hypochormic as central pallor zone increased in most red cells
Microcytic as cells are smaller than normal
Anisocytosis (variation in ...
An elevated WBC count with mainly neutrophils suggests inflammation or infection.
A very high WBC count (>50,000) that is not a leukemia is known as a “leukemoid reaction”.
This ...
Normal Lymphocyte on the left and Segmented Neutrophil on the right
Normal Monocyte, notice the folded nucleus and it’s big size comparing to other blood cells
Eosinophil ...
This is a normal peripheral blood smear, you might notice very slightly anisocytosis and poikilocytosis
Red cells here are normochormic and central pallor is around 1/3 of cell diameter ...
This is normal bone marrow smear at low power field magnification, you can see the erythroid island, granulocytes series and megakaryocytes.
This marrow is 50% cellular with steatocytes(1) ...
The image was captured from a case of β- thalassemia intermedia; findings include anisocytosis, poikilocytosis, hypochromia, target cells and many fragmented red blood cells
The arrow ...