Blood Smears
Cause for pink lymphocytes
Understained
Acidic dye
RBC associated with increased MCHC
Spherocyte
Inclusion often associated with polychromasia
Basophilic Stippling
Term for a WBC with platelets
WBC satellites
Anomaly associated with "pince-nez"
Pelger Huet
Increased
RBC morphology associated with increased lipid deposition (and not commonly associated with thalassemia)
Acanthrocyte
Inclusion often termed "Washington Monument"
Hemoglobin SC crystal
Cause of moth-eaten cells
Water artifact
Chediak Higashi
Most common finding associated with infant heel sticks
Platelet clumps
RBC morphology associated with cycles of bleeding and clotting
Schistocytes
Composition of the megaloblastic triad
1. MCV > 100 fL
2. Macrocytes
3. Hypersegmented neutrophils
(Bonus: Pancytopenia)
Term for cell with hyper condensed chromatin
Pyknotic
Anomaly associated with giant platelets
May Hegglin
Two smear abnormalities associated with Waldenstrom's macroglobinemia
1. Rouleaux
2. Plasma cells
RBC morphology similar between IMF and myelophthisic anemia
Dacrocytes
Reed-Sternberg Cells
Rouleaux
Anomaly associated with mucopolysaccharidosis
Alder Reilly
Actual WBC count of differential count on a 50 cell differential that results in 24 nRBCs (instrument WBC count 20,000/ul)
13,514/ul
3 RBC morphologies associated with burns
1. Microspherocytes
2. Schistocytes
3. Burr Cells
Composition of "golf balls"
Hemoglobin H
Resolution for EDTA-induced platelet clumping
Blue top (sodium citrate)
Multiple count by 1.11
Anomaly associated with endoplasmic reticulum-like inclusions
May Hegglin