Hematology Stains
Hematology Tests
Leukemias
Anemias
"Trin"isms
100

This stain is used to enumerate and identify reticulocytes in the blood.

What is New Methylene Blue stain

100

This test method is the gold standard for determining hemoglobin and uses spectrophotometry to measure the amount of hemoglobin present in the blood.

What is Cyanmethemoglobin?

100

This is the most common type of leukemia that occurs in children

What is Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)?

100

The presence of Pappenheimer bodies in the red blood cells is consistent with a diagnosis of this type of anemia.

What is sideroblastic anemia?

100

If it doesn’t make sense….

What is "it's not true"?

200

This stain procedure is used to evaluate the iron stores in the bone marrow.

What is Prussian Blue Stain?

200

This test is used as a screening method for Sickle Cell Anemia.

What is Hemoglobin Solubility Test (Sodium Dithionite Solubility Test) OR Sodium Metabisulfite test?

200

This type of leukemia will predominantly show Auer Rods as a finding when reviewed under the microscope.

What is Acute Myelogenous Leukemia?

200

This anemia is caused by the destruction of the bone marrow pluripotential stem cells.

What is Aplastic Anemia?
200

“Chicken pox” of the red blood cells, this can be seen in lead poisoning

What are basophillic stippling?
300

This stain is used to determine if there is fetal blood in maternal circulation by staining the hemoglobin F in the fetal blood.

What is Kleihauer Betke Stain?

300

Used to identify hereditary spherocytosis, this test relies on the fact that fragile cells will burst at varying concentrations of NaCl when compared to normal cells.

What is the Osmotic Fragility Test?

300

Smudge cells can be a common finding in this leukemia.

What is Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)?

300

An “anemia within an anemia”, this disorder is caused by the autoimmune destruction of intrinsic factor.

What is Pernicious Anemia?

300

One of Trin's quotes at the microscope, "look to see if the cells have come with"…

What are "friends"? 

400

This stain is used to help diagnose suspected cases of hairy cell leukemia.

What is Tartrate Resistant Acid Phosphatase (TRAP) stain?

400

This test would be most helpful in differentiating infectious mononucleosis from cytomegalovirus infection.

What is the Heterophile antibody test?

400

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a common complication for this leukemia.  

What is Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL)?

400

Having similar RBC morphologies with iron deficiency anemia, this anemia can be differentiated from IDA in that there will be an increased bone marrow iron and ferritin.

What is Anemia of Chronic Disease?

400

This animal would sometimes join class or provide a song to the class during Web Ex sessions (Trin’s pet).

What is a cat?

500

This stain is used to help differentiate a reactive process from chronic myelogenous leukemia.  A “score” is provided and is low or normal in the latter but is elevated in the former.

What is Leukocyte Alkaline Phosphatase (LAP) stain?

500

Though typically not performed in hematology, this test helps to identify spherocytosis when it is seen in certain autoimmune anemias.

What is the Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) or Direct Coombs test?

500

Representing 20% of all leukemias and categorized as a Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorder, it is caused by an acquired chromosome abnormality that demonstrates as a short chromosome 22 which is named the Philadelphia chromosome.

What is Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)?

500

These are the main causes of megaloblastic anemia.

What is dietary deficiency of B12, defective absorption of B12, and lack of intrinsic factor?

500

That jerk from accounting, he’s also present when patients have Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Who is Reed Sternberg?

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