What is Your Guess? A Donor Going Green

What is your guess? The case of the blue-green urine.

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. * Address correspondence to this author at: University of North Carolina, 101 Manning Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525. Fax 919-966-9490; e-mail [email protected]. DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.161919 Fig. 1. Urine sample from patient with a history of bladder cancer. Clinical Chemistry 57:4 646–658 ...

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What is your guess? Lactescent plasma in acute leukemia.

A 15-year-old white girl presented with headaches and night sweats of 2 weeks’ duration. Her platelet count was 50 10/ L (50 10/L) [reference interval, 140–440 10/ L (140–440 10/L)]. Upon referral to hematology/oncology, the patient had a leukocyte count of 21 10/ L (21 10/L) [reference interval, 3.8–9.8 10/ L (3.8–9.8 10/L)] with 46% lymphoblasts. The patient was diagnosed with pre-B acute lym...

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What is your guess? A 42-year-old woman with fever after a trip to Africa.

A 42-year-old woman was admitted with fever. Two weeks prior, she had returned from a 1-month stay in the Comoros archipelago (islands situated to the east of Mozambique), during which she had not taken antimalarial prophylaxis. Her medical history included a total splenectomy during surgery for a gastrointestinal stromal tumor 2 years before. A thin smear of blood revealed the findings seen in...