New York State Department of Health - Wadsworth Center - Cytohematology Proficiency Testing

Slide 031 [100X]

This slide and slide 032 were  taken from a peripheral blood smear of a 42 year-old female seen by her physician for a routine annual examination. She was asymptomatic. Her white blood cell count was 152.6 X 10³ /µL. The differential showed 2% blasts among other immature cells of the neutrophilic series. Diagnosis was chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). The cell indicated by the arrow on slide 031 is a metamyelocyte. A clinical chemistry profile was unremarkable except for an LDH of 840 U/L. Normal range for the laboratory submitting this case was 118-242 U/L.

NUMBER OF RESPONSES	CELL CODE AND TYPE
467	code 45- metamyelocyte

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