Owing to the fact that white blood cells are a heterogenous population, anomalies of white blood cells can be classified according to the
type of cell, cell parts affected and function
A. NUCLEAR ABNORMALITIES
B. CYTOPLASMIC ABNORMALITIES
C. ABNORMALITIES OF CELLS EXHIBITING PHAGOCYTOSIS
D. FUNCTION ABNORMALITIES
E. ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH LYMPHOCYTES
F. ABNORMALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH PLASMA CELLS
G. MONOCYTE/ MACROPHAGE LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISORDERS
Lipid Storage Diseases
Mucopolysaccharidosis
Lipid Storage Diseases
Gaucher Disease
NiemannPick Disease
Fabry Disease
Tay-Sachs disease
Sandhoff disease
Sea Blue Histiocytes
Mucopolysaccharidosis
MPS I- Severe
MPS I- Attenuated
MPS II
MPS III
MPS IV
benign anomaly of neutrophils
Hyposegmentation
nucleus fails to segment properly
Hyposegmentation
bilobed nuclei
Hyposegmentation
o Dumbbell-shaped
o Spectacle-shaped
o Peanut-shaped
Hyposegmentation
o “Pince-nez”
Hyposegmentation
abnormality in the maturation of the neutrophils (abnormality in DNA synthesis)
Hypersegmentation
6 or more lobed nucleus
Hypersegmentation
o seen in the nuclear material
Appendage
o represents the second X chromosome in females o may be seen in 2-3% of neutrophils in females
Appendage
o NOT FOUND IN NORMAL MALES
Barr body
o a small, well-defined, round projection of nuclear chromatin
Barr body
o connected to the nucleus of the neutrophil by a single, fine strand of chromatin
Barr body
large purple-black coarse cytoplasmic granules
Alder-Reilly Bodies
accumulations of degraded mucopolysaccharides
Alder-Reilly Bodies