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A normal peripheral blood smear indicates the appropriate appearance of red blood cells, with a zone
peripheral blood smear ... #Clinical #Path ... #Microscopy #PeripheralBloodSmear
Auer Rods - Bone marrow aspiration revealed 5% blasts and 65% promyelocytes; many promyelocytes had prominent
#Clinical #Path ... AcutePromyelocyticLeukemia #Smear ... #Microscopy #NEJM
Urine Microscopy - Casts
Acellular Casts
 • Hyaline Casts - Consists of only precipitated Tamm-Horsfell protein without
Urine Microscopy ... - Casts Acellular ... Casts • Hyaline ... suggestive of nephrotic sydnrome ... #Urine #Microscopy
Here is another peripheral blood smear demonstrating changes with iron deficiency anemia. Note the increased zone
peripheral blood smear ... #Clinical #Path ... #Microscopy #PeripheralBloodSmear
Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
#Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear ... #Microscopy #Auer
Muddy Brown Casts in ATN
#Clinical #Path #Nephro #Urine #Microscopy #MuddyBrownCasts #ATN
Muddy Brown Casts ... ATN #Clinical #Path ... Nephro #Urine #Microscopy
Plasmodium Falciparum Blood Smear.
Key features suggesting Plasmodium falciparum:
- extreme parasitemia
- normocytic RBCs (vivax, ovale prefer big
Falciparum Blood Smear ... human malaria cases ... rare in blood smears ... Falciparum #Blood #Smear ... peripheral #clinical #microscopy
Red cell autoagglutination is the process whereby red cells clump together forming aggregates. This is seen
#Clinical #Path ... #Blood #Smear #Microscopy
Nephritic vs Nephrotic Syndrome

Step 1: If the patient has hematuria and/or proteinuria, think about nephrotic/nephritic syndromes.
Step
Nephritic vs Nephrotic Syndrome ... nephrotic/nephritic syndromes ... hematuria (RBC casts ... Nephritic #Nephrotic #Syndrome ... #Comparison #Algorithm
Red cell autoagglutination is the process whereby red cells clump together forming aggregates. This is seen
#Clinical #Path ... #Blood #Smear #Microscopy