12 January 2018 (Friday) - October's Digital Morphology



I’ll hold my hand up here…. I did the October 2017 exercise three months ago. I then promptly forgot all about it. But now I remembered….


CPD Report






Participant: Me !!


CPD Date: 2017-10-19 10:27:16


Total Number of Participants: 1098


Case Identifier: 1705DM








Consensus of Morphological features recorded:








Your Observations:
Rank
Morphological Feature
Participants who selected this feature
1
Macrocytes
50.8%

2
Howell Jolly Bodies
7.1%

3
Hypersegmented neutrophils
81.5%

4
Ovalocytes
31.1%

5
Cytoplasmic vacuolation
2%




Other participants' Observations
Rank
Morphological Feature
Participants who selected this feature
1
Hypersegmented neutrophil..
81.5%

2
Macrocytes
50.8%

3
Polychromatic RBC
40.2%

4
Tear drop poikilocytes
39.2%

5
Hypochromic RBC
38.1%






What is the most useful next step?


Suggest haematinic measurements


What is your preferred diagnosis for this case?


Megaloblastic anaemia




Actual pathological diagnosis:

Vitamin B12 deficiency



I’m pleased with that !!

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