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Blood smear
A drop of blood is place on a microscope slide and smeared across the slide and reviewed under a microscope. Sometimes the slide will be stained to further reveal special features of the blood. Simple huh?
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A 44-year old male asked:
Slight polychrome on blood smear is that concerning?
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A 25-year old female asked:
What does an abnormal blood smear showing tear drop cells, ovolacyes, and anisocitosis mean?
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A 38-year old asked:
What does yeast in a blood smear looks like?
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A 45-year old asked:
What does it mean to have ovalocytes in a blood smear?
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A member asked:
Do I have to see a specialist to get a blood smear ordered?
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A 48-year old asked:
Does anyone know what it means to have ovalocytes in a blood smear?
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A member asked:
After sex i feel pain on right side in one specific place and some blood smears. I did all the tests but did not find anything. I got the impression that i was rubbing pennies i felled pain and burning for several days after sex please advice
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A 33-year old female asked:
What is no blast seen means in peripheral blood smear?
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A 30-year old asked:
Is it possible to have normal CBC and abnormal blood smear?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is it true that a blood smear can provide more accuracy then a cbc?
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A 38-year old female asked:
My peripheral blood smear stated "no abnormal blasts seen." Does that mean there were no blasts seen or only normal blasts were seen?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Would polycythemia vera show on a blood smear?
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A 38-year old female asked:
What does it mean for a blood smear to show moderate polychromasia and moderate Schistocytes? Google doesn't give a good picture. :) Thanks
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A female asked:
Hi good night... i am a student. i wanted to know what the diagnosis for this patient will be if the blood smear has a lymph count of 65 and mono 21?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Can a blood smear show blood cancer pv? Or blood disorders?
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A 22-year old female asked:
When looking at a blood smear of a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, how do we explain what we're seeing and what's going on?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Blood Smear (Erythrocyte) shows normocytic normochromic. Although it does not have the word Aneamia, is it same with normocytic normochromic Aneamia?
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A 39-year old asked:
Why do doctors count monocytes and not macrophages in a peripheral blood smear?
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A 26-year old male asked:
Will Itraconazole medication affect cytological peripheral blood smear analysis?
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A 40-year old female asked:
What does Platelet anisocytosis mean on blood smear? Platelet count is 454K. (10 days ago it was 482K)
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A 64-year old male asked about a 79-year old male:
Have you ever seen severe myelodysplastic changes in peripheral blood smears of septic cancer patients?
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A 26-year old female asked:
What is the meaning of seeing a blood smear or one little blood drop (with normal pap smear )after intercourse?Should I have to be worried?
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A 22-year old female asked:
Cbc performed-everything normal except low wbc. Blood smear- normal. Told to come bck in 2mths & redraw. Should i be worried? Wht could cause this?
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A 46-year old female asked:
What is "Fibrin Strands Present" in manual blood smear path report? & Neutropenia & Ovalocytes. Ideas of what could cause that? Is a specialist needed
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A 29-year old asked:
Would a yeast infection in the blood stream show up on blood smear?
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A 41-year old female asked:
If i walk in and ask the hospital to do a blood smear and check for fungal and yeast in my blood will they do it?
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A 24-year old male asked:
What diseases a peripheral blood smear shows? Can it show that there is an infectious disease or viral?
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A 38-year old female asked:
What does it mean when Large and giant platelets are found in blood smear, RBC morphology and Poikilocytosis? What causes Large and Giant platelets to show up?
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A 29-year old asked:
Could a yeast infection in the blood stream show up on a peripheral blood smear?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Abnormal blood smear..I have (h) WBC (l) RBC and (h) platelets and tear drop cells and helmet cells....What is this?
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