Hematology
Neutrophil Hypogranulation: Causes and Morphology
What neutrophil hypogranulation in a blood smear means: diagnostic significance in severe infections and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
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Blood Smear
Hematology
Neutrophil Vacuolization: Causes and Clinical Significance
What neutrophil vacuolization in a blood smear means: a marker of severe bacterial infection, sepsis, or an artifact of prolonged EDTA sample storage.
Hematology
Cabot Rings in Erythrocytes: Morphology and Diagnostics
What are Cabot rings in erythrocytes? Morphological features, causes of appearance in megaloblastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Hematology
Toxic Granulation of Neutrophils: Causes and Morphology
What toxic granulation of neutrophils in a blood smear means. Mechanism of granule formation, connection to infection severity, sepsis, and clinical significance.
Hematology
Pelger-Huët Anomaly: Blood Smear Morphology
A clinical case of hereditary Pelger-Huët anomaly. Morphological features of neutrophil nuclear hyposegmentation in peripheral blood.
Hematology
Basophilic Stippling of Erythrocytes in Blood Smear
What basophilic stippling of erythrocytes in a blood smear means: diagnostic significance in thalassemia, lead poisoning, and sideroblastic anemias.
Hematology
Ring-shaped Neutrophil Nuclei in Feline Blood Smear
Morphology of neutrophils with ring-shaped nuclei during a left shift in the leukocyte differential count. Microscopy of a feline peripheral blood smear at 1000x magnification.
Hematology
Polychromatophilia in a Peripheral Blood Smear
What polychromatophilia of erythrocytes in a blood smear means: causes of polychromatophils, connection with reticulocytosis and enhanced erythropoiesis.
Hematology
Erythrocyte Chromia: Normochromia, Hypochromia, Hyperchromia
Morphological assessment of erythrocytes in peripheral blood smears: signs of normochromia, hypochromia, and hyperchromia in the differential diagnosis of anemias.
Hematology
Radial Aggregation of Red Blood Cells in Peripheral Blood Smear
Unusual fan-shaped arrangement and aggregation of red blood cells in a blood smear: differential diagnosis of preparation artifacts and pathological clusters.
Hematology
Knizocytes in Blood Smear: Morphology and Diagnostics
What are knizocytes, how do red blood cells with two concavities look in a blood smear, and what pathologies do they indicate? Diagnosis in hemoglobinopathies.
Oncohematology
Naked Megakaryocyte Nuclei in Primary Myelofibrosis
Peripheral blood smear morphology in primary myelofibrosis: identification of circulating naked megakaryocyte nuclei, poikilocytosis, and giant platelets.