Lab findings Flashcards
Reed sternberg cells
NHL
Auer rods
APML
Blast cells
AML
Starry sky
Burkitt Lymphoma
HbH inclusions
Beta4 quartemers
HbH disease in Alpha Thal 3 gene deletion (NTDT)
Spurr cell/Acanthocyte
Post spleenectomy
Liver dis
Spurr cell/Acanthocyte RBC
Post spleenectomy
Liver dis
Burr cell/Echinocyte RBC
Artifact
Ureaemia
Liver dis
Schistocyte RBC
MAHA
valve damaged
Bite cell RBC
G6PD
Spherocyte RBC
AIHA
Hereditary spherocytosis
- AbN RBC mmb (skeleton) 2⁰ protein mutation
- Important proteins ↓ : Ankyrin, Band 3, Spectrin, Protein 4.2 (six60)
- AD inheritance / variable
- Detect by reduction in EMA fluorescence
- Spleenectomy may be needed if symptomatic anaemia
Target Cell RBC
- Thalasseamia
- Haemaglobulinopathies
- Post spleenectomy
- Liver Dis
- Artifact
Tear drop RBC
Myelofibrosis
underlying marrow problem/infiltrate
RBC agglutinate
- Cold AIHA
- Paroxysmal cold heamoglobinaemia
- IgM assoc Lymphoma
- MM
Rouleaux RBC
- MM
- Lymphoma
- Liver
- Chronic inflamm
Smear cells
CLL
Howell-Joly bodies
Speen - damaged/absent
Also in MDS, sickle cell, haemolytic anaemia, amyloidosis, megaloblastic
B cell markers
B19-23
Surface Ig
Primarily CD19 and CD20
T cell markers
CD 2-8
- CD3 - primary T cells
- CD4 - T h
- CD8 - T cyto (but also 30% of NK cells)
- CD45RA - naive
- CD45RO - memory
Stem cell markers
CD34, CD45, HLA-Dr
NK cells
- CD16?
- CD56
- CD57