3 December 2025 (Wednesday) - NEQAS 2507 BF

I got hold of the results of NEQAS 2507 BF today…

 

2507BF1

 

I wrote

 

Hypochromic (consensus 1^st)

Microcytic      (consensus 3^rd)

Pencil cells    (consensus 4^th)

Target cells   (consensus 2^nd)

Tear drop cells (consensus 6^th)

 

I wrote ?? Fe def. The expert opinion said “2507BF1 was the blood film from a 23-year-old woman with iron deficiency anaemia,”

 

 

25007BF2

 

Macrocytosis (consensus 4^th)

HJB

Tear drop cells (consensus 6^th)

Hypersegmented neut (consensus 1^st)

Low plts (consensus 3^rd)

 

I wrote ?? B12 def The expert opinion said “2507BF2 was the blood film from a 56-year-old man with nutritional megaloblastic anaemia”

 

I’ll take that…