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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (blood). Typical morphologic features are bilobed ("butterfly") nuclei with dispersed chromatin, subtle to
promyelocytic leukemia (blood ... features in most cases ... promyelocytic #leukemia #APL ... #Hematology #Clinical ... #Smear
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
her peripheral blood ... smear showed hypogranular ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear # ... Rods #AuerRods #APL
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
myelogenous leukemia (AML ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear # ... Rods #AuerRods #AML
Causes of Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Disorders - Differential Diagnosis and Workup
History:
 - Prior platelet count, family
plateletcount), peripheral blood ... smear, HIV/HCV ... not required in all ... dysplasia on the smear ... #Workup #hematology
Hypersegmented neutrophil in a case of acute myeloid leukemia.

Dysplastic neutrophils are typically hypolobated but can be
neutrophil in a case ... #neutrophils #AML ... #Clinical #Hematology ... #Pathology #Smear
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
the peripheral blood ... smear or on bone ... : Blast crises ... • Peripheral smear ... #Leukemia #Hematology
Nucleated red blood cells, aka normoblasts or erythroblasts, were released prematurely from the bone marrow in
Nucleated red blood ... fetus/newborn the causes ... #Path #Peds #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear #
Schistocytes can assume a shape resembling natural or man-made objects such as arrowheads, fish, collar buttons,
In this case, arrows ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear #
Spherocytes - The arrow points to one of many spherocytes in this photo. The cells have
This smear was from ...

Causes of spherocyte ... Clinical #Path #BloodSmear ... #Blood #Smear #

Overall Approach to Anemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Blood Loss
 • Acute Bleed - Normocytic / Normochromic
Diagnosis Algorithm Blood ... Normochromic RBCs on Smear ... Spherocytes on Smear ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #Causes ... #Hematology