#LearningMonday… continuing
being a reactionary old fart, I hate hashtags. But I do like the Learning Monday
idea. This one was a good one… which is the most unlikely diagnosis. Initially
I plumped for PNH as it is a disease of older people.
But… Gaucher’s disease… what’s
that?
There’s a Wikipedia entry
on the condition here. I know that proper science sneers at Wikipedia, but as a
starting point it is hard to beat. Apparently Gaucher’s disease is one in which
glucocerebroside accumulates in cells and certain organs… one of the places it
accumulates is in macrophages which have a distinctive
appearance in bone marrow smears… and to complicate the issue there are
also pseudo-Gaucher cells.
I learned something here…
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