I
finally got round to looking up the results of the blood film NEQAS I did a
while back…
1804 BF1
In this film I saw lymphocytosis, smear cells ,macrocytosis, polychromasia
and basophilic stippling. There were some nucleated red cells…
I thought it was CLL with AIHA… it was.
1804 BF2
In this film I saw anisopoikilocytosis, target cells, hypochromia and basophilic stippling
I thought it was possibly a haemoglobinopathy of some form, as did most
other participants including the expert whose opinion was given in the report.
However it was a case of congenital sideroblastic anaemia. Rather
obscure… I can’t help but wonder how I (and
most of the other participants) would have fared had we been given more
information. If there is one criticism I would make of these NEQAS excercises
it is that we don’t get anywhere near enough information on these cases…
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