Lab test interpretation
Urine Sediment Microscopy Case: 63-Year-Old Male
A clinical case study on urine sediment microscopy for a 63-year-old male. Identify the structures found and answer a colleague's question.
Articles
Blood and bone marrow morphology, clinical cases and diagnostic algorithms. Most of the library is in Russian; the English section is growing.
Most of our material is written in Russian — that is the working language of the community. A few pieces exist in English; the rest of the library is one click away and the photographs need no translation.
Parasitology
Microscopy Challenge: Finding Parasites Amidst Artifacts
A diagnostic challenge in medical parasitology: identify whether helminth eggs or protozoa are present among stool microscopy artifacts.
Parasitology
Veterinary Parasitology: Laboratory Diagnostics
Screenshots from a veterinary parasitology video lesson: identifying helminth eggs, Toxoplasma oocysts, nematode larvae, and ticks in animal biomaterial.
Clinical cases
Cytology Case: Gynecological Smear of a 56-Year-Old Patient
Clinical cytology case: differential diagnosis of cellular changes in a ThinPrep gynecological smear from a 56-year-old patient.
Lab test interpretation
Pediatric Stool Microscopy: Interpreting a Specimen
A clinical case study on coprogram analysis: help interpret inclusions in a stool specimen from a one-year-old child. Microscopic findings.
Parasitology
Morphology and Sizes of Fasciola and Dicrocoelium Eggs
Comparative microscopy of liver fluke eggs: large Fasciola egg and small Dicrocoelium egg in one field of view for differential diagnosis.
Clinical cases
Maxillary Sinus Mycosis: Mycelial Filaments in Smear
Microscopic examination of maxillary sinus discharge suspected of mycosis. Detection of branching mycelial filaments, methylene blue stain.
Parasitology
Diphyllobothrium latum Eggs in Stool Microscopy
A clinical case of Diphyllobothrium latum (broad tapeworm) eggs detected in a native stool smear from a 72-year-old patient. Morphological features of the parasite.
Parasitology
Sarcoptic Mange and Otodectes in Cats: Scrape Microscopy
Microscopic diagnosis of acariasis in cats: identification of Sarcoptes scabiei mites (sarcoptic mange) in skin scrapes and ear mites in otodectes wet mounts.
Parasitology
Dipylidiasis: Microscopy of Dipylidium caninum Egg Cocoons
Morphological features of cucumber tapeworm (Dipylidium caninum) egg cocoons in a native stool sample during microscopic diagnosis of dipylidiasis.
Hematology
The differential white blood cell count
What the differential count is, how to read neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils, and which pathological cells must never be missed.
Hematology
«Blue-green crystals of death» and Döhle bodies in neutrophils
A clinical case of an 81-year-old woman with sepsis: critical blue-green inclusions in neutrophils, Knyazkov — Döhle bodies and what they mean for the prognosis.