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Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
myelogenous leukemia (AML ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy ... Rods #AuerRods #AML
A normal peripheral blood smear indicates the appropriate appearance of red blood cells, with a zone
blood smear indicates ... appearance of red blood ... #Clinical #Path ... #Microscopy #PeripheralBloodSmear ... #BloodSmear #Normal
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
myeloid leukemia (AML ... ) t(8;21), AML with ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
Auer Rods - Bone marrow aspiration revealed 5% blasts and 65% promyelocytes; many promyelocytes had prominent
#Clinical #Path ... #APL #AuerRods # ... AcutePromyelocyticLeukemia #Smear ... #Microscopy #NEJM
Sickle cells
These photos show sickle cells on peripheral blood smears. In the left photo target cells
photos show sickle ... smears. ... months of life, the abnormal ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood
Polychromatophilia - Note 2 large blue-gray erythrocytes as seen on H&E stain. On a stain for
The left photo also ... reticulocyte is a normal ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Polychromatophilia
Spherocytes - The arrow points to one of many spherocytes in this photo. The cells have
spherocytes in this photo ... This smear was from ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Spherocytes
Schistocytes - The arrows point to schistocytes which are fragmented red blood cells. Also called schizocytes,
are one of the abnormal ... In the right photo ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Schistocytes
Howell-Jolly Body - On these Wright-stained peripheral blood smears the small dark spheres within red cells
smears the small ... DNA which, under normal ... autosplenectomy in sickle ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
Peripheral Smear ... involve one, two, or all ... transformation to AML ... smear • Bone marrow ... progression to AML