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This week’s Morphology Monday features a 60-year-old female with a history of chronic anaemia and persistent...
This week’s case featured a patient with Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma (SMZL) a rare, indolent B-cell...
...a patient who presented with fatigue and splenomegaly on examination. Routine bloods showed a significant...
The findings pointed toward a diagnosis of megaloblastic anaemia, in this case most likely due to vitamin...
Patient went to their GP and presented with fatigue and shortness of breath.
The findings are strongly suggestive of acute leukaemia of myeloid origin, though further flow cytometry...
a patient who presented with a gastrointestinal (GI) bleed and was started on tranexamic acid (TXA) as...
This week’s case focused on an adult male with a platelet count in the 54×0⁹/L, identified during routine...
Session 1: Tools of the Trade will provide a solid foundation in the basic techniques and principles...
Today’s case involves an adult male whose blood film was reviewed following an unexpected finding on...
CML is a myeloproliferative neoplasm driven by the BCR:ABL1 fusion gene
Case from an 80 something year old male who arrived with fatigue, early satiety, and notable weight...
Blood film showing platelets clustering around neutrophils. This week’s Morphology Monday case...
While assessing the film, an interesting phenomenon was noted, one that can influence how we interpret...
I explore where automation falls short and why human interpretation remains essential in spotting artefacts,...
Infectious mononucleosis (IM), also known as glandular fever, is a common clinical presentation in adolescents...
Special Morphology Monday feature published in The Biomedical Scientist
While band forms are classically linked to P. malariae, morphological overlap can occur, and a confident...
Howell-Jolly bodies are small, round inclusions
Malaria disproportionately affects children under five and pregnant women, especially in sub-Saharan...
Only Cells hosted another successful Webinar titled "Haemoglobinopathies - the small details that make...
Cryoglobulins are abnormal antibodies (immunoglobulins) that precipitate or become insoluble at low...
dawn of unknown paths
What some might perceive as "difficult" or "stubborn" in healthcare scientists is, in reality, unwavering...
Red cells twist in crescent shape...
Borrelia's morphology is distinct; they appear as thin, helical (spiral-shaped) organisms
A notable feature of AML is the increased adhesiveness of these blast cells, leading them to adhere more...
In labs where life's frail secrets hide,
And answers wait, deep inside,
Who's in the right? Who's in the wrong? Who cares? We should focus on our own processes and not palm...
Only Cells hosted an online webinar titled "TTP Diagnostics - Preventing a Fragmented Approach."
HUS is a form of MAHA
Drepanocytes or as they are commonly known, sickle cells...
In the heat of the situation people say all sorts, but nothing prepared me for that nonchalant yet cowardly...
"Hi, it's OIR. Could I start a code red please? We have a patient on the ward who's crashed and have...
Acanthocytes are red blood cells with irregular, spiky protrusions (spicules) on their surface.
Refers to pale red cells
Blister cells are red blood cells that have a blister or bubble like appearance on their surface.
The presence of two distinct population of red cells.
Basophilic stippling refers to the presence of evenly distributed inclusions within the erythrocytes...
Peripheral blood film from a patient with myelofibrosis, showing dacrocytes (teardrop cells). Dacrocytes...
Spherocytes, unlike normal red cells are spherical in shape.
Elliptocytes are elongated red cells.
Plasma cell in a patient with plasma cell leukaemia. I had the opportunity to sit and discuss this peripheral...
Images from a patient with APML.
Target cells have a characteristic target or bullseye appearance.
Images showing a Plasmodium Falciparum infection
Smear cells aren't confirmatory for CLL.
Characterised by large platelets and grey spindle like inclusions within neutrophils.
...showing characteristic bilobed cells and inclusions.
Red cells with varying colours.
Cells of different sizes and shapes.
...two neutrophils with a reduced number of nuclear lobes...
Fibrin strands on a peripheral blood film.