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Schistocytes, an Auer rod and sickle cells: three individual images for refining morphological description.
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TEACHING RESOURCE M0005
An individual ASH Image Bank image showing multiple schistocytes in a peripheral blood film.
ASH Image Bank · 61504 · Peripheral Blood with Multiple Schistocytes
TEACHING RESOURCE M0006
An ASH Image Bank photograph with an arrow identifying an Auer rod in a myeloid blast.
ASH Image Bank · 2523 · Auer Rod - 1.
TEACHING RESOURCE M0043
An ASH Image Bank image by Perla Vicari, with arrows indicating sickle cells.
ASH Image Bank · 63736 · Sickle cells (drepanocytes)
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0034
Elongated pointed erythrocytes suggesting an HbS haemoglobinopathy.
Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA — File : Sickle Cell Anemia (5610746554).jpg — CC BY 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASickle_Cell_Anemia_(5610746554).jpg
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0035
Erythrocyte fragments identified and quantified on an appropriate film; haemolytic context is essential.
Moutaz Ghrewati; Anas Mahmoud; Tala Beilani; Karam Zakharia; Mehandar Kumar · How Should Complicated Cases of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura With Positive Coombs Test Be Treated? · Cureus 2023;15(12):e50742, Figure 1 · CC BY 4.0 · https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/case_report/pdf/210009/20250210-74301-7pi8xp.pdf
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0036
Elongated cytoplasmic inclusions in myeloid cells; some presentations require urgent assessment.
Paulo Henrique Orlandi Mourao — File : Myeloblast with Auer rod smear 2010-01-27.JPG — CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMyeloblast_with_Auer_rod_smear_2010-01-27.JPG
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0044
Lymphocyte population characterised morphologically, complemented by absolute count and immunophenotype.
Mary Ann Thompson (VashiDonsk at en.wikipedia) — File : Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChronic_lymphocytic_leukemia.jpg
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0103
Recognise a target red cell without inferring a specific haemoglobinopathy.
Ed Uthman · Target Cells (51391831913).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Target_Cells_(51391831913).jpg
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0111
Recognise hypersegmentation without automatically attributing it to deficiency.
Ed Uthman — Hypersegmented_Neutrophils_(36831145373).jpg — CC BY 2.0
ImagesMICA IMAGES A0112
Describe dense round red cells, then distinguish mechanisms of haemolysis.
Ed Uthman — Spherocytes_(4670166434).jpg — CC BY 2.0