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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...
Howell-Jolly bodies are small, round inclusions found within red blood cells.
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.