COVID-19, a disease caused by a virus SARS-CoV-2, was first detected in patients in Wuhan China in November 2019. Since then SARS-CoV-2 has been detected…

The ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’ (FRCPath) is a stringent set of examinations, structured into two parts, designed to test and ensure…

FRCPath Haematology Examinations explained The ‘Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Pathologists’ (FRCPath) are a stringent set of examinations, structured into two parts, designed…

In the background are eosinophils, increased myeloid precursors and increased small lymphocytes and plasma cells.  Cell A is a binucleate Reed‐Sternberg (RS) cells but can…

I’ve just finished my second year studying Biomedical Science at Cardiff University and here’s a little about my experience so far. Biomedical Science is a…

The worm like trypomastigote form has a slender form with a central nucleus and large kinetoplast (circular DNA inside a large mitochondrian) Curved, usually S…

Here is a nice example of metastatic disease, specifically prostate cancer in the bone marrow You can appreciate the clumping of cells typical of non-haematopoeitic…

This was a case of Plasmodium Vivax although Ovale is also a good call: A. Trophozite – often multiply infected with large chromatin dots B.…

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…