She explains the foundations of blood smear and bone marrow staining, using both a manual and an automated method, and the importance of identifying clean and clear cell morphology. Dr. Kumar will ...

Hematoxylin and eosin staining of a core biopsy specimen ... Examination of a peripheral-blood smear revealed pancytopenia with anisopoikilocytosis, with a variety of morphologic forms of atypical ...

Polychromasia occurs on a lab test when some of your red blood cells show up as bluish-gray when they are stained with a particular type of dye. This happens when red blood cells are immature ...

Scopio is an imaging company looking to re-imagine a common blood test called a peripheral blood smear. In essence, that’s a test where a doctor, usually looking to understand an anomaly in a ...

After adequate staining of peripheral blood smears with Giemsa or Wright’s stain, the Babesia parasites can be seen within erythrocytes as darkly-stained ring shapes with pale blue cytoplasm.

Acanthocytes are abnormal red blood cells with spikes of different lengths and widths unevenly positioned on the cell surface. The name comes from the Greek words “acantha” (which means ...

FIGURE 1. Platelet clumping (blue) was seen on peripheral blood smear. A misdiagnosis would have led to unnecessary tests and treatment. Ms. J, age 55 years, was referred to hematology for ...