27 March 2017 (Monday) - Lunchtime Presentation

A colleague gave an excellent presentation on anaemia this lunchtime. It covered all aspects of a rather wide field and was rather good. And it left some questions unanswered. Why are pencil cells pencil shaped?

I’ve no idea. I’ve never thought to question why.

In a previous life I used to organise a program of lunch time tutorials. I’ve forgotten just how useful they can be. Wonder when the next one is…

27 March 2017 (Monday) - Blood FIlm Tutorial

I strolled in to work an hour early this morning – another morphology tutorial was taking place. We only covered three blood films:

• G6PD
• myelofibrosis
• Alpha thalassamia

but we spent about twenty minutes on each film, teasing out the salient features.

I’m finding these sessions rather useful. I do hope they continue…

25 March 2017 (Saturday) - Plasmablastic Lymphoma

I had an email from the lablology people today with a link to a rather interesting case of plasmablastic lymphoma.

No – I’d never heard of it before either.

However it was interesting in that great store was made of the cytogenetics. I rather thought that gross chromosome anatomical studies had been replaced by far more specific gene analysis. Perhaps not…