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Classic Lab Findings
Labs
13
Medical
Graduate
06/10/2011

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Term

Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts

 

Auer rods

Definition
AML; especially promyelocytic type
Term

Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBC

 

Howell-Jolly bodies

Definition
due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen
Term
Basophilic stippling of RBC's
Definition
Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia
Term
Bloody tap on LP
Definition
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Term
Branching gram-positive rods with sulfur granules
Definition
Actinomyces isreali
Term
Bronchogenic apical lung tumor
Definition
Pancoast's tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause horner's syndrome)
Term
Brown tumor of bone
Definition

Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts

 

due to

Hyperparathyroidism

Osteitis fibrosa cystica

Term

Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy

 

Definition

Chagas disease

(T. cruzi)

Term
Cellular crescents in Bowman's capsule
Definition
Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis
Term
Chocolate cyst of ovary
Definition
Endometriosis
Term
Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils
Definition

Homer Wright rosettes

 

Neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, Ewings sarcoma

Term
Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lung
Definition
Cystic fibrosis
Term

Chinease letter appearance

 

Black colonies

Definition
Corynebacterium diptheria
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