Hematology
Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: Blood Smear Morphology
Laboratory signs of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: microspherocytes, polychromasia, and normoblasts in blood smear, direct antiglobulin test.
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.
Oncohematology
Acute Leukemia: Blast Morphology in Complete Blood Count
A clinical case of acute leukemia in a 21-year-old patient: pronounced blastosis in a peripheral blood smear, morphological features, and clinical manifestations.
Oncohematology
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Blasts and Auer Rods in Blood Smear
A clinical case of refractory acute myeloid leukemia: 64% blastemia in peripheral blood, morphology of myeloblasts and Auer rods in the smear.
Oncohematology
Blood Picture in Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)
A clinical case of CMML in a 73-year-old patient: absolute monocytosis, isolated blasts, dysgranulopoiesis, and neutrophil hyposegmentation in the blood smear.
Oncohematology
Bone Marrow in Multiple Myeloma Remission: A Case Study
Evaluating bone marrow aspirate in multiple myeloma remission: mature plasma cell morphology, absence of atypia, and normal myelogram parameters.
Clinical cases
Rare Morphological Findings in Biomaterial Microscopy
Microscopic findings in clinical diagnostic laboratories: botryoid neutrophil segmentation, karyorrhexis, blast with Auer rods, signet ring cells, and uric acid crystals.
Oncohematology
Bone Marrow Morphology in Multiple Myeloma
Cytological features of bone marrow in multiple myeloma: atypical and binucleated plasma cells, Mott cells, clasmacytosis, and a phagocytosing macrophage.
Oncohematology
Dysgranulocytopoiesis in Blood Smear: Suspected Myelodysplastic Syndrome
A clinical case of pancytopenia in a 75-year-old patient: signs of dysgranulocytopoiesis, pseudo-Pelger anomaly, and poikilocytosis with suspected MDS.
Hematology
Barr Bodies in Neutrophils: Identifying Sex Chromatin
Morphological identification of Barr bodies (sex chromatin) in peripheral blood neutrophils: a clinical case of a female patient in the intensive care unit.
Hematology
Bacteremia in Peripheral Blood Smear in Sepsis
A clinical case of bacteremia in severe sepsis: leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, procalcitonin level 84.6 ng/mL, and bacteria in the blood smear.
Hematology
Monocyte Vacuolization in Peripheral Blood Smears
Explore monocyte morphology with cytoplasmic vacuolization in a critical care patient: leukocytosis with left shift, anemia, anisocytosis, and hematology analyzer printout.
Oncohematology
Acute Leukemia Blasts: Monocytic Differentiation
A clinical case of acute leukemia: hyperleukocytosis, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and 38.5% blasts with monocytic differentiation in a blood smear.