📉 Critical leukopenia and blasts! Woman, 68 years old. 🩸 Leukocytes — 0.79 × 10⁹/L • Blasts — 81% 📉 Erythrocytes — 2.52 × 10¹²/L • Hemoglobin — 70 g/L • Platelets — 33 × 10⁹/L In the images: peripheral blood.
🔬 In cases of severe leukopenia, it is essential to prepare two or more blood smears to obtain a sufficient number of leukocytes for morphological evaluation. Otherwise, the differential count may be inaccurate due to too few cells in the field of view.
🙏 The material for publication was kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Yulia Gudkova, Moscow
