30 August 2024 (Friday) - NEQAS 2405 BF

I got hold of the blood film NEQAS results today
 
2405 BF1
 

I saw        (consensus rating)

 

Thrombocytopenia (1)

Blast cells               (2)

Auer rods                (7)

Neutropenia            (3)

NRBC                     (4)

 

I said this was AML – it was,

 
 
2405 BF2
 

I saw        (consensus rating)

 

Neutropenia             (3)

Blast cells                 (2)

Thrombocytopenia   (1)

Tear drop cells          (6)

Thrombocytopenia     (1)

 

I thought this was horrible, but didn’t want to commit myself any further. It was a pancytopenic cace of acute promyelocytic leukaemia.

 
I think I did OK there…