6 April 2023 (Thursday) - NEQAS 2302 BF

 

I got hold of the NEQAS 2302BF survey today.

NEQAS 2302 BF1

 

Top ten consensus comments   1 Nucleated RBCs 2 Thrombocytopenia 3 Fragments/Schistocytes 4 Blast Cells 5 Polychromatic Cells 6 Myelocytes 7 Left Shift 8 Tear Drop Poikilocytes 9 Band Form Neutrophils 10 Neoplastic Lymphocytes

I said:   Nucleated Rbc Thrombocytopenia Fragments/Schistocytes Tear drop cells Myelocytes

 

This was a case of bone marrow infiltration by a non-haemopoetic carcinoma… I spotted the salient features.

 

NEQAS 2302 BF2

 

Top ten consensus comments   1 Thrombocytopenia 2 Blast Cells 3 Lymphocytosis 4 Prolymphocytes 5 Nucleated RBCs 6 Smear/Smudge Cells 7 Hypochromic Cells 8 Abnormal Lymphocytes 9 Target Cells 10 Polychromatic Cells

I said:   Blasts Prolymphocytes & cleft nuclei smear cells hypochromic microcytic target cells

 

This was a case of Diffuse large B cell lymphoma. I went with “Lymphoproliverative disorder” and (to be honest) with the information given, that wasn’t a bad suggestion.

6 April 2023 (Thursday) - Stago Newsletter

The Stago newsletter appeared in my in-box today. You can read it by clicking here.

The nice people at Stago have launched new coagulometers; sthemO and sthemE.

There’s a YouTube video about the machines here, but I’d suggest it is aimed at people who thrive on management buzz-words rather than people who are interested in technical matters.

But I shall try to find out more about these machines…

4 April 2023 (Tuesday) - A Worm?

This piccie appeared on the Facebook Hematology Interest group, and (like every picture on that group) there were almost as many theories presented about the piccie as there were people to present them.

However this is Strongyloides stercoralis, a threadworm that can get into people from the skin and settle in the GI tract. When immunocompromised it can become a hyper-infection and spread to other parts of the body.

Would I recognise it as Strongyloides stercoralis? I doubt it. But would I recognise that it shouldn’t he there? I certainly hope so.

 

There’s a good summary on Wikipedia that you can read by clicking here.