Flora smear, female. Violation of the preanalytical stage – spermatozoa, almost continuous.
🙏 Photos kindly provided by Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Physician, Irina Selivanova LLC “Citilab-Ural”, Yekaterinburg
A clear example of gross violation of preparation rules for a flora smear test: spermatozoa found in a female sample. Preanalytical stage errors.
Flora smear, female. Violation of the preanalytical stage – spermatozoa, almost continuous.
🙏 Photos kindly provided by Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Physician, Irina Selivanova LLC “Citilab-Ural”, Yekaterinburg

How excess EDTA in small blood volumes distorts analyzer scattergrams and cell morphology: echinocytes, nuclear pyknosis, and endothelial aggregates.

A clinical case of detecting Trichomonas vaginalis and massive leukocytosis in a genital tract smear from a pregnant patient at 38 weeks.

Cytological features of a lymph node imprint in a 78-year-old female patient with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL non-GCB). Morphological description.