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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
Sickle cell anemia and Howell Jolly bodies (nuclear remnants).

 - Dr. Abubaker Elshaikh
@ElshaikhMD

#SickleCell #HowellJolly #Body #Bodies
Sickle cell anemia ... and Howell Jolly bodies ... #Pathology #Hematology ... #Smear #Clinical ... #Microscopy
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Summary

Cancer affecting lymphocytes/Mature B cell neoplasm
 • Lymphocytes accumulate in large numbers
lymphocytes/Mature B cell ... disease • B cell ... and other C Cell ... AIHA • Pure red cell ... lymphoma • Mantle cell
Pathologic Red Blood Cell (RBC) Morphologies and Associated Diseases

Acanthocyte (spur cell),  
Basophilic stippling, 
Bite cell,
Cell (RBC) Morphologies ... Acanthocyte (spur cell ... stippling, Bite cell ... , Sickle cell, ... , Target cell
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 ... #Peripheral #Pathology ... #Microscopy #Clinical
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
Peripheral blood findings in microangiopathic hemolytic anemia.  DIC is a clinical and laboratory diagnosis, not
non-specific red cell ... polychromatophilic cells ... arrow) Peripheral smear ... anemia #Hematology #Pathology ... #Smear #Microscopy
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
low red blood cell ... low white blood cell ... hematopoiesis cell ... or three blood cell ... or more blood cell
Howell-Jolly Body - On these Wright-stained peripheral blood smears the small dark spheres within red cells
spheres within red cells ... body within a red cell ... photo and target cells ... autosplenectomy in sickle cell ... thalassemia, and leukemia
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) - Summary
Overview: 
 • Most common leukemia in adults
 • Disorder of
(CLL) - Summary ... • Peripheral smear ... lymphocytes, smudge cells ... Transformation to large cell ... uw_IMresidency #CLL