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The images show intact malignant B-ALL cells penetrating normal megakaryocytes  What is emperipolesis? It is the active penetration of one haematopoietic cell by another cell,…

The FRCPath, or ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’, is a recognised postgraduate qualification in the field of pathology (including haematology) consisting of…

This is of course Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia – a diagnosis not to get wrong! Not suspecting and treating this will have fatal consequences due to…

Rare but usually seen in autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) More likely to form with cells of the monocyte Form via interaction of surface Fc receptors…

An interesting blood film from a patient with primary myelofibrosis with the typical features of leucoerythroblastosis. Note the rainbow of cells (and arrows ): GREEN…

So why choose us? Blood Academy is an extensive resource database that provides high quality material to aid your revision for the Haematology FRCPath exam.…

Howell-Jolly bodies in neutrophils! Yes, they can occur representing detached nuclear fragments. They are most commonly seen in HIV Immunosuppressive drugs Chemotherapy Remember-always correlate with…

Automated digital analysers of blood smears has been on the rise due to the ever-progressing field of digital image analysis (by means of machine learning).…

These are oval-spherical in shape with a clear halo (that’s the capsule) invading neutrophils. There is also a sneaky nucleated red cell. Pseudohyphae +/- budding…

Why choose haematology as a career? For medical professionals, the specialty of haematology in the United Kingdom (UK) provides an extraordinary career option. Clinical haematology…

Rare but often very treatable with the purine analogue cladrabine Look long and hard for them in all patients with cytopenia(s) especially where there is…

Social media (SM) describes web-based applications that allow people to create and exchange content. It encompasses blogs and microblogs (such as Twitter), internet forums (such…

These are endothelial cells. Typical features when seen in the blood film are occur in loose sheets  pleomorphic with round to oval nuclei and variably…

The blood film shows sickle cells (green arrow) whilst the chest X-ray has pulmonary infiltrates (white arrow).  Assuming the infiltrates are new, the respiratory symptoms…

The fine dots represent RNA and can be seen in loads of conditions, below are a few: Lead poisoning Thalassaemia Myelodysplastic syndrome Congenital dyseryhtropoeitic anaemia…