Oncohematology
Sézary Syndrome: Cell Morphology and Flow Cytometry
A clinical case of Sézary syndrome in an elderly patient: atypical lymphocyte morphology in blood smear, CD4+/CD7-/CD26- phenotype, and TCRG clonality.
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
AML vs MDS: Differential Diagnosis in Pancytopenia
A clinical case of differential diagnosis between AML and MDS in a 32-year-old patient with pancytopenia: smear morphology, blast count, and flow cytometry.
Hematology
Bone Marrow Morphology: Assessing Cellular Composition
How to evaluate a bone marrow smear without patient history: differentiating hematopoietic lineages, cellularity, and maturation signs of granulocytes and normoblasts.
Hematology
Plasma Cell Morphology and Atypical Forms
Morphological variants of plasma cells: flaming plasma cells, Mott cells with Russell bodies, and atypical forms with rod-like inclusions.
Oncohematology
Bone Marrow Blasts in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Study
A 59-year-old female patient presents with leukopenia and anemia. This case study examines the morphology of large blasts with basophilic cytoplasm in the bone marrow during acute leukemia.
Hematology
Cold Agglutination in Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection
Blood smear morphology in Mycoplasma pneumoniae: severe cold agglutination of red blood cells, falsely elevated MCHC, and reactive lymphocytes with uropods.
Parasitology
Tropical Malaria in Blood Smear: A Clinical Case
A clinical case of tropical malaria: detection of Plasmodium falciparum in blood smear and thick film during leukocyte differential count.
Hemostasis
Severe Thrombocytopenia in HIV and Hepatitis C Co-infection
A clinical case of profound thrombocytopenia (PLT 3×10⁹/L) in HIV and hepatitis C co-infection: analyzer results and peripheral blood smear microscopy.
Parasitology
Microfilariae in Blood Smear: Diagnosing Dirofilariasis
Detection of microfilariae in peripheral blood smears in cutaneous and cardiac dirofilariasis. Features of differential morphological diagnosis of larvae.
Oncohematology
Hodgkin Lymphoma in Children: Clinical Manifestations
A clinical case of massive Hodgkin's disease in a 4-year-old child with giant neck nodes, from I. A. Kassirsky's guide.
Oncohematology
Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia: Monoblasts and Promonocytes
Morphological features of acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AML M4): diagnostic criteria for differentiating monoblasts and promonocytes in a blood smear.
Oncohematology
Cytoplasmic Inclusions in Neoplastic Lymphocytes
Morphological features of rare cytoplasmic filamentous inclusions in lymphoid cells in lymphoproliferative disorders: Löffler's atlas.