Morphology of fungi in hematological preparations: Aspergillus in blood, Fusarium spores, and contaminants in bone marrow aspirate.
🍄Fungi in hematological preparations. (A) Aspergillus in the peripheral blood of a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
(B) Fusarium spores, likely an exogenous contaminant, in the bone marrow film.
(C) Spores of unknown origin in the ruptured cytoplasm of a cell in a bone marrow aspirate.
👉Source: Giuseppe d’Onofrio - Morphology of Blood Disorders 2015
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