A 61-year-old male presented with 2 months of bone pain. Complete blood count showed Hb 10 g/dL, white blood cell count 4.5 109/L, and platelets 130 109/L. The peripheral smear contained visible agglutinates and a blue background color (panel A). Aggregates of amorphous particles mimicking lysed cells were observed microscopically (panels C-E) with smaller and less stained deposits (panel E arr...

The blood samples were sent to the lab for further investigations. A comple te b lood count showed hemoconcentration, leucopenia and thrombocytopenia. Hb 15.1 gm/dl, total WBC count 1.93 x 109/L, (myelocyte 1%, metamyelocyte 4%, band forms 14%, segmented neutrophi ls 30% lymphocytes 47% and monocytes 4%.) and platelet count 102 x 109/L. Peripheral blood smear demonstrated leucopenia with shif t...

BACKGROUND We highlight the orbital manifestations of acute myeloid leukemia and the role of peripheral blood smear in the diagnosis of these cases. A total of 12 patients who presented with proptosis and were subsequently diagnosed to have acute myeloid leukemia based on incision biopsy or peripheral blood smear were included in the study. RESULTS A retrospective review of all cases of acute...

Buffy coat smears from febrile patients may contain visible bacteria and therefore detect bacteraemia before conventional blood cultures become positive. However, it is unusual to see micro-organisms in an otherwise untreated peripheral blood smear. The case of a febrile neutropenic patient is reported. A Wright's stained peripheral blood smear contained bacterial elements, thus making earlier ...

BACKGROUND Pharmacogenetic testing may change clinical medicine by allowing clinicians to tailor medications based on a patient's genetic makeup, however, these tests must first be validated in large, real-life populations of subjects that include children. A dearth of knowledge exists for whether pediatric populations are as willing as adult populations to provide samples for such studies. O...

Blood cell counting is a major field of study in biomedical engineering. In human blood cell segmentation cases, many methods are being studied and applied for obtaining better results. In this paper, we present an approach for counting different blood cells during blood smear test. The approach which is presented in this paper is by segmentation using morphological watershed transformation. Mo...

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