
Gumprecht Shadow or Neutrophil Extracellular Trap: A Case
A practical hematology exercise: differential diagnosis of disintegrated leukocytes in a blood smear. Gumprecht shadow or neutrophil extracellular trap?
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A practical hematology exercise: differential diagnosis of disintegrated leukocytes in a blood smear. Gumprecht shadow or neutrophil extracellular trap?

Cytological findings of bone marrow aspirate in severe anemia: erythroid hyperplasia and morphology of maturing erythroid precursors.

Detection of dacrocytes in a peripheral blood smear: a clinical case of a 69-year-old female patient, smear microscopy, and causes of teardrop cells.

Morphology of an erythroblastic island in bone marrow aspirate: a central macrophage surrounded by maturing erythrocaryocytes (normoblasts).

Microscopy of native ascitic fluid: detection of poikilocytosis and acanthocytes during laboratory examination of effusions. Learn more about their morphology.

Examples of monocytes with bizarre nuclear shapes in peripheral blood. Morphological features of the monocytic lineage during blood smear microscopy.

A clinical case of hemophagocytosis in a bone marrow smear from a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and severe leukopenia. Macrophage morphology.

Bone marrow findings in a 78-year-old female patient with trilineage cytopenia: erythroblastic island with macrophage, hypocellularity, and isolated blasts.

Laboratory hematology test: identify the type of granulocytes with dermatan sulfate inclusions in a peripheral blood smear using a photomicrograph.

A cell morphology challenge: identify the origin of cells with cytoplasmic projections forming clusters in a microscopic preparation.

Bone marrow morphology in dyserythropoiesis: erythroid proliferation, binucleated erythroblasts, intercellular bridges, and megaloblasts in the smear.

Evaluation of megakaryocyte morphology in bone marrow aspirate from a patient with thrombocytopenia: poor platelet budding in the smear.