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Azurophilic granular needles in leukemic blasts
Auer rods |
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Definition
| AML; especially promyelocytic type |
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Basophilic nuclear remnants in RBC
Howell-Jolly bodies |
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Definition
| due to splenectomy or nonfunctional spleen |
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| Basophilic stippling of RBC's |
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Definition
| Lead poisoning or sideroblastic anemia |
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| Branching gram-positive rods with sulfur granules |
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Definition
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| Bronchogenic apical lung tumor |
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Definition
| Pancoast's tumor (can compress sympathetic ganglion and cause horner's syndrome) |
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Definition
Hemorrhage causes brown color of osteolytic cysts
due to
Hyperparathyroidism
Osteitis fibrosa cystica |
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Cardiomegaly with apical atrophy
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Definition
Chagas disease
(T. cruzi) |
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Term
| Cellular crescents in Bowman's capsule |
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Definition
| Rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis |
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| Circular grouping of dark tumor cells surrounding pale neurofibrils |
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Definition
Homer Wright rosettes
Neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, Ewings sarcoma |
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Term
| Colonies of mucoid Pseudomonas in lung |
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Definition
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Chinease letter appearance
Black colonies |
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Definition
| Corynebacterium diptheria |
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