8 results
Auer Rods - Bone marrow aspiration revealed 5% blasts and 65% promyelocytes; many promyelocytes had prominent
#Clinical #Path ... #APL #AuerRods # ... AcutePromyelocyticLeukemia #Smear ... #Microscopy #NEJM
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
peripheral blood smear ... cells - Blood & BM ... • Cytopenia -> BM ... Pruritis after hot bath ... • Peripheral smear
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
a bone marrow (BM ... and started on all-trans ... peripheral blood smear ... #Clinical #Path ... BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
Urinary Tract Tuberculosis - Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed mild dilatation of the
ipsilateral ureteral wall ... Clinical #Radiology #Pathology ... Tuberculosis #Pyuria #Smear ... AcidFastBacilli #Microscopy #NEJM
B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Clinical
 - Primarily a disease of childhood, 75% <6 yo
 - Increased
disease with limited BM ... iAMP21 - BCR-ABL-like ... lauraebrown #BCell #ALL ... Leukemia #Lymphoma #hemepath ... #pathology #prognosis
Guide to systemic mastocytosis

Criteria for diagnosis: at least 1 major and 1 minor or 3 minor
aggregates) in BM ... Minor: • >25% of all ... are atypical on BM ... #mastocytosis #hemepath ... #pathology #algorithm
T-LGL leukemia - T-CeIl Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia
Clinical
 - Persistent (>6mo) lymphocytosis (2-20k) with proven clonality
as pancytopenic/ill ... presentation (PB, BM ... Negative for EBER, ALK ... Lymphocytic #Leukemia #hemepath ... #pathology #diagnosis
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK+
Clinical
 • First 3 decades of life, M>F
 • Often nodal +
cell lymphoma, ALK ... lungs, liver) • BM ... lymphoma #ALKPos #hemepath ... #pathology