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A normal peripheral blood smear indicates the appropriate appearance of red blood cells, with a zone
smear indicates ... cells, with a zone ... #Clinical #Path ... #Microscopy #PeripheralBloodSmear ... #BloodSmear #Normal
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
acute myelogenous leukemia ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
She was diagnosed ... hospitalization and treatment ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood ... #Smear #Microscopy
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
the peripheral blood ... smear or on bone ... Pruritis after hot bath ... • Peripheral smear ... Hematology #Oncology #Diagnosis
Howell-Jolly Body - On these Wright-stained peripheral blood smears the small dark spheres within red cells
Wright-stained peripheral blood ... smears the small ... thalassemia, and leukemia ... #Clinical #Path ... #BloodSmear #Blood
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
Peripheral Smear ... • Hairy Cell Leukemia ... count with differential ... smear • Bone marrow ... Myelodysplastic #Syndromes #diagnosis
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
phenomenon CLL Diagnosis ... • Peripheral smear ... Lymphocytosis: Absolute blood ... microglobulin Treatment ... #diagnosis #workup
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
LBRF can be diagnosed ... with a blood smear ... initiation of treatment ... #recurrentis #BloodSmear ... #microscopy #pathology
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Overview

Increased Clotting and Consumption of Clotting Factors

Findings:
 • Bleeding
 • Recent history
promyelocytic leukemia ... ABO incompatible blood ... • Peripheral smear ... #Coagulation #diagnosis ... #causes #treatment
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
polyangiitis), MPA (microscopic ... reveals increasing blood ... FINDINGS: • U/A: microscopic ... proteinuria • Path ... #treatment