Morphological features of giant plasma cells in blood smears: differential diagnosis and distribution of large forms in the feathered edge of the smear.
Giant plasma cells (can be confused with erythroid precursors) Due to their large size, they are located at the very end of the smear (last photo)
👉 Material kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Alena Leshchiner, Hadassah Medical Moscow.
A clinical case detailing the discovery of Mott cells with Russell bodies in a peripheral blood smear from a 66-year-old patient with anemia and cytopenia.
A clinical case of an 86-year-old patient with 17% blasts in the blood: morphological criteria for assessing immature cells and differential diagnostics in a blood smear.
A clinical case of detecting 6% plasma cells in a complete blood count in myeloma before bone marrow aspiration and a sharp increase in free lambda chains.
