peripheral blood smear

These immature granulocytes are seen in peripheral blood smears.

The diagnosis is made on the basis of clinical parameters, the peripheral blood smear and low immunoglobulin levels.

McLeod syndrome is one of only a few disorders in which acanthocytes may be found on the peripheral blood smear.

A peripheral blood smear can also be examined for intracytoplasmic inclusions called morulae.

Target cells may be seen on a peripheral blood smear when there is excess membrane relative to the amount of hemoglobin.

In some patients, the fungus can be identified by microscopic examination of the Wright's-stained peripheral blood smear (1265).

Laboratory features typically include anemia and dimorphic erythrocytes on the peripheral blood smear.

These dots are the visualization of ribosomes and can often be found in the peripheral blood smear, even in some normal individuals.

It is impossible to distinguish between T cells and B cells in a peripheral blood smear.

Peripheral blood smears shows anisomacrocytosis with many coccobacilli adherent to red blood cells.

Neutrophil granulocytes have an average diameter of 12-15 micrometers ( m) in peripheral blood smears.

It is used primarily to stain peripheral blood smears and bone marrow aspirates which are examined under a light microscope.

Peripheral blood smear microscopy:

One way to diagnose C. felis is by taking blood and performing a peripheral blood smear to look for the erythrocytic piroplasms.

The test is also commonly ordered as a hemolytic anemia battery, which also includes a reticulocyte count and a peripheral blood smear.

It is unusual to see mature trophozoites or schizonts in peripheral blood smears, as these are usually sequestered in the tissues.

Giemsa stain is a classic blood film stain for peripheral blood smears and bone marrow specimens.

This is often referred to as a "maltese cross" sign because of the resemblance of the tetrad to the cross on peripheral blood smear.

In patients with severe disseminated histoplasmosis, peripheral blood smears can show the organisms engulfed by WBCs.

Microscopically, in a Wright's stained peripheral blood smear, a normal lymphocyte has a large, dark-staining nucleus with little to no eosinophilic cytoplasm.

"Klein-Gumprecht shadow nuclei": Shadow nuclei observed in the peripheral blood smears of patients with leukemia.

In addition to a complete blood count, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, and cytogenetic analysis, a peripheral blood smear is used to diagnose primary myelofibrosis.

If the MCV was determined by automated equipment, the result can be compared to RBC morphology on a peripheral blood smear.

The best way to diagnose dysplasia is by morphology and special stains (PAS) used on the bone marrow aspirate and peripheral blood smear.

In a peripheral blood smear, the red blood cells will appear abnormally small and lack the central pallor that is present in normal red blood cells.