Buzzwords

Question 1

Pappenheimer bodies

Answer 1

beta thal major - think other stuff too actually

Question 2

heinz bodies

Answer 2

oxidative damage eg HbH disease, g6pd deficient

Question 3

raised HbA2

Answer 3

b thal trait

Question 4

macrovalocytes + hypersegmented neutrophils

Answer 4

megaloblastic haemolytic anaemia

Question 5

alcoholic + anaemia

Answer 5

folate deficient

Question 6

peripheral neuropathy anaemia

Answer 6

b12 deficient

Question 7

low serum ferritin

Answer 7

iron deficiency anaemia

Question 8

what tests fe supply and what tests fe stores

Answer 8

supply - transferrin

stores - ferritin

Question 9

no nucleus but rna remnants

Answer 9

reticulocyte

Question 10

subacute combined SC degeneration

Answer 10

b12 deficiency

Question 11

following RTA bleeding everywhere e.g. out of veneflon

Answer 11

DIC

Question 12

55 year old female, jaundiced, anaemic, PMH autoimmune condition

Answer 12

pernicious anaemia

Question 13

P. falciparum

Answer 13

malaria

Question 14

howell jolley bodies (purple dot inside RBC)

Answer 14

celiac disease - again not specific !!! indicate hyposplenism

Question 15

smear cells

Answer 15

chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Question 16

teardrop cells poikilocytes

Answer 16

primary myelofibrosis

Question 17

Neutrophilic toxic granulation and vacuolation

Answer 17

bacterial sepsis

Question 18

myeloblasts + immature red cells + granulocysts

Answer 18

leukerythroblastic

Question 19

eccentric clock face nucleus

Answer 19

plasma cell

Question 20

bi-lobed bright red orange granules

Answer 20

eosinophil

Question 21

blood film shows golf balls

Answer 21

Hbh disease - alpha thalassaemia

Question 22

hair on end appearance skull

Answer 22

beta thal major

Question 23

pepper pot skull

Answer 23

myeloma

Question 24

alcohol induced pain

Answer 24

hodgkin’s

Question 25

warm water induced itch

Answer 25

polycythaemia rubra

Question 26

teardrop rbc

Answer 26

primary myelofibrosis