8/12- Lab: Morphologic Abnormalities of WBC and Platelets Flashcards

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What is this?

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Macrophage

  • Can see vacuoles where it has eaten something
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What is this?

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Neutrophil

  • Coarser cytoplasm
  • Pink granules (not as course as eosinophil)
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What is the relative granule coarseness for granulocytes?

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Basophil > Eosinophil > Neutrophil

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What is this?

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Toxic Granulation

  • Neutrophils typically have very fine granules, but they are more coarse here
  • Smaller than typical basophil granules and slightly different color
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What is this?

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Dohle Bodies

  • Bluish inclusions in cytoplasm
  • Remnants of RER or leftover free ribosomes
  • Usually indicative of reactive process, but may be a benign condition
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What is this?

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Cytoplasmic Vacuoles

  • Clear areas
  • Debris present in vacuoles
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What do these all have in common?

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They are “Toxic” Changes

  • Dohle bodies
  • Toxic granulation
  • Cytoplasmic vacuoles
  • Band forms (not multilobulated nuclei); left shift
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What is this? Benign or Malignant?

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Pelger Huet Anomaly

  • Neutrophils have only 2 lobes (same size, look like spectacles)
  • Benign; does not change function of the cell
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What is this?

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Stodtmeister cell

  • No lobation of neturophil nucleus at all (subcategory of Pelger Huet anomaly?)
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What is a leukemoid reaction?

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Increased numbers of WBCS

  • Infection
  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • Childbirth
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What is seen here?

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Many neutrophils

  • Leukemoid reaction (typ increase in WBCs is mostly neutrophils?)
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What is seen here?

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Eosinophilia

  • Characteristic 2 lobes and nice, bright, eosinophilic granules
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What may cause eosinophilia?

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  • Allergic reactions
  • Drug allergies
  • Parasitic infections
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What is seen here?

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Lymphocytosis

  • Coarse chromatin
  • Slightly more cytoplasm than would normally be seen (somewhat reactive)
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What is seen here?

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Atypical lymphocytes

  • Much more cytoplasm
  • Somewhat glassy cytoplasm
  • “Hugging” other cells; indented by RBCs
  • These are reactive changes
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When might you see atypical lymphocytes (reactive)?

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EBV

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What is this?

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Leukoerythroblastic

  • In center: immature myeloid cell
  • Immature cells coming out of bone marrow (myeloid and erythroid)
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What is this?

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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

  • All the cells look very similar
  • Nucleus is not as dark (chromatin not as clumped)
  • Larger than normal (5-6x RBC)
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What is this?

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Closer look at AML

  • Normal lymphocyte in lower middle
  • Other cells are HUGE (blasts)
  • Big nucleus; high N:C ratio
  • Smooth (not clumped) chromatin
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What is this?

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More blasts in AML

  • Myeloid blasts
  • Prominent nucleoli
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What is seen here?

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AML

  • Auer Rods
  • FOR SURE MYELOID BLASTS!!!
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What is this?

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Multiple Auer Rods- AML

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Sudan black is used for what? What is this?

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Sudan Black is a cytochemical stain

  • This is AML (confirms myeloid blasts)
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What is this?

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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB AML M3)

  • Cells stuck in promyelyte stage (1 step above blasts)
  • Bilobed nuclei
  • Nucleolus
  • Granulate cytoplasm
  • Auer rods
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What is this?

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Acute myelomonocytic leukemia with abnormal eosinophils (FAB AML M4eo)

  • Eosinophilia
  • Hard to differentiate between eosinophil and basophil; showing both types of granules (abnormal)
  • This is a leukemia because you have blasts in the background
  • Typically from chromosomal abnormality (inversion) in chrom 16
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What is this?

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Acute Monocytic Leukemia (AML M5)

  • All monocytes (indented kidney bean nucleus)
  • delicately folded nucleus

Confirm monocytes with:

- Specific esterase: negative (positive in myeloblasts)

- Nonspecific esterase: positive

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What is this?

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ALL- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

  • Immature lymphocytes
  • Still blasts! Not clumped chromatin
  • These are large (mature ones are about same size as RBC)
  • High N:C ratio
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How to differentiate between ALL vs. Lymphocyte?

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Lymphoblast

  • Very dense, hardly any cytoplasm
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What is this?

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ALL (bone marrow)

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What is this? Genetic cause?

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Burkitt Leukemia (BM)

- Translocation 8;14

  • Can see nice cytoplasmic vacuoles
  • Lymphoid-looking cells - All look similar
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What is this?

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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

  • Rogue lymphocytes: small, abnormal (NOT BLASTS)
  • Strange lymphocyte morphology: much coarser clumping
  • Will have increased WBC count
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What is seen here?

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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)

  • Smudge cells (very fragile cells; not much cytoplasm)
  • Abnormal clumping in lymphocytes
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What is this?

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Multiple Myeloma (bone marrow)

  • Plasma cells are normally very low in bone marrow (under 5%) (plasma cell dyscrasia)

Can tell they’re plasma:

  • Slightly eccentric nucleus
  • Bluish cytoplasm
  • Perinuclear clearing
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What is this?

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Multiply Myeloma (BM)-- a plasma cell malignancy

Can tell they’re plasma:

  • Slightly eccentric nucleus
  • Bluish cytoplasm
  • Perinuclear clearing
  • Clockface nuclei!!!
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What is this? Genetics?

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CML- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

  • t9;22 (translocation)- Philadelphia chromosome
  • Myeloid cells are taking over
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What is this?

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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)

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What is this?

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CML (Basophilia)

  • Hardly ever see basophils in peripheral blood
  • Many immature myeloid cells
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What is this?

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Essential Thrombocytosis

  • Another myeloproliferative neoplasm
  • Increased platelets (no benign reason for this)
  • Platelets do look normal (normal size and granules)
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What is this?

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Megathrombocyte (giant platelet)

  • About the same size as a RBC
  • Just see cytoplasm and granules (no nucleus)
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What is this?

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Tear Drops

  • Tells us there is myeloproliferative issue in the bone marrow
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What is this?

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Myelofibrosis (bone marrow biopsy)

Left: H and E stain

Right: Reticulin stain

  • Looks like they’re “streaming”; streaming effect
  • Things look packed
  • Reticulin stain is showing much fibrosis (abnormal in bone marrow)
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What is this?

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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

  • Left arrow = Pseudo Pelger Huet cell
  • Right arrow = blast
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What is this?

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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

Top: Hypoblated pseudo Pelger Huet cells

Bottom L: Dysplasia in erythroid precursor (D)

Bottom R: Hypogranular and hypolobulated