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Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
is of B-cell lineage ... marrow • Mature B-cell ... involvement • T-cell ... Rapidly rising blast cells ... form of large cell
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
lymphocytes/Mature B cell ... disease • B cell ... lymphoma • Hairy cell ... Smoldering adult T cell ... leukemia #CLL
Prolymphocytes

In our case, the patient has T-prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL) not Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).  🔬Tumor
🔬Tumor cells are ... size lymphoid cells ... Prolymphocytes #Smear ... #Microscopy #Clinical ... #Blood
Plasmacytomas and Plasma-Cell Leukemia - Physical examination revealed multiple exophytic subcutaneous lesions involving the arms and
Plasmacytomas and Plasma-Cell ... Leukemia - Physical ... A peripheral-blood ... 25% plasma cells ... #Smear #NEJM
Peripheral Blood Smear Analysis
Hypochromia
Megaloblastic Anemia
Schistocytes: Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (e.g. DIC, TTP, HUS)
Microspherocytes: Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Sickled red
Peripheral Blood ... anemia Sickled red cells ... : Sickle cell disease ... Bite cells: G6PD ... #hematology #microscopy
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Pathologic Red Blood ... Cell (RBC) Morphologies ... Acanthocyte (spur cell ... , Sickle cell, ... , Target cell
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
cell count (anemia ... hematopoiesis cell ... cell type - white ... cell types are ... cell types.
Plasma cell leukemia with extensive rouleaux formation. Aggressive disease & patients typically younger than other forms
Plasma cell leukemia ... primary plasma cell ... leukemia Genevieve ... formation #Clinical #Smear ... #Hematology #Pathology
Sickle cell anemia and Howell Jolly bodies (nuclear remnants).

 - Dr. Abubaker Elshaikh
@ElshaikhMD

#SickleCell #HowellJolly #Body #Bodies
Sickle cell anemia ... #Body #Bodies #Pathology ... #Hematology #Smear ... #Clinical #Microscopy
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
Peripheral blood ... non-specific red cell ... polychromatophilic cells ... anemia #Hematology #Pathology ... #Smear #Microscopy