Blood Film Flashcards
reed-sternbeg cells
Hodgkins lymphoma
anisotcytosis
variation in size of RBCs
- high red cell distribution width
conditions anisocytosis seen in
myelodysplastic syndrome
haemolytic anaemia
iron deficient anaemia
post blood transfusion
auer rods
large, crystalline cytoplasmic inclusion bodies
auer rods conditions
acute myeloid leukaemia
basophilic stippling
presence of numerous basophilic granules that are disperse through the cytoplasm of RBCs in a peripheral smear
basophilic stippling conditions
lead poisoning
thalassaemia
sideroblastic anaemia
myelodysplasia
bite cells
RBCs tha contain a semi-circular indent on edge of membrane
Heinz bodies
individual bodies seen inside RBCs caused by denatured global
Heinz bodies conditions
G6PD deficiency
Alpha-thalassaemia
Howell-Jolly Bodies
individual bloods of RNA material seen inside RBCs
- sign of spleen dysfunction
- hyposplenism
Howell-Jolly bodies conditions
post-splenectomy
Severe anaemia
condition: hypo chronic RBC with central pallor
haemoglobinopathy (thalassaaemia)
reticulocytes
immature RBCs
- larger
- still contain RN
- purple/blue
reticulocyte conditions
haemolytic naemia
Rouleux formation
stacks of aggregated RBCs
occur in increased plasma protein concentration
rouleaux formation condition
myeloma
waldenstrom’s macroglobinaemia
inflammatory disorders
malignancy
schistocytes
fragments of RBCs
schistocyte conditions
HUS
DIC
thrombotic thrombocytopenic purport
sideroblasts
immature RBCs containing blobs of iron
sideroblasts conditions
myelodysplastic syndrome
smudge cells
rupture WBCs
Smudge cell conditions
chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
spherocytes
spherical RBCs
spheerocyte conditions
autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
hereditary spherocytosis
target cells
pigmented central area surrounded by pale area then an outer ring of thicker cytoplasm
‘bulls eye’
target cell conditions
iron deficiency anaemia
post splenectomy
tear drop RBCs
poikolocytes
teardrop RBCs conditions
myelofibrosis
severe iron deficiency
B-thalassaemia major §
