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Giant Platelets: Morphology and Analyzer Errors

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:01 +0300

🔍Giant platelet. 😯Its diameter even exceeds that of a red blood cell. 📌An abundance of such platelet forms can lead to incorrect counting by hematology analyzers that use only the impedance method.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Blasts and Auer Rods in Blood

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:00:01 +0300

⚠ 97% blasts and Auer rods

Female, 75 years old.

🔬 Complete Blood Count:

Leukocytes — 181.76 ×10⁹/L
Erythrocytes — 2.84 ×10¹²/L
Hemoglobin — 85 g/L
Platelets — 49 ×10⁹/L

🩸 In the peripheral blood smear — 97% blasts, some with Auer rods. Some cells have nuclei with “angel wings” morphology.

Howell-Jolly Bodies in Blood Smear: Morphology & Case Study

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:30:00 +0300

🔬 Howell-Jolly bodies in every field of view, +++. Female, 68 years old.

🙏 Photos kindly provided by Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Physician, Irina Selivanova LLC “Citilab-Ural”, Yekaterinburg

Megaloblasts in Blood Smear with Macrocytic Anemia

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:59:57 +0300

Peripheral blood smear of a 56-year-old woman.

Macrocytic hyperchromic anemia according to blood test results from a Sysmex XN hematology analyzer.

Hypersegmented neutrophils, as well as basophilic and polychromatophilic megaloblasts, were found in the peripheral blood smear.