Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - 5

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Kwon, Gloria
  • To, Michelle

• An image from a peripheral blood smear showing numerous small mature lymphocytes and a smudge cell seen in a patient with CLL (100X oil immersion). Numerous spherocytes and increased polychromasia is also noted (out of focus), indicating an auto-immune hemolytic process.

• Date created

  2018-06-11

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Soccer-Ball Appearance
  • Mature B-Cell
  • Abnormal White Blood Cell
  • Polychromasia
  • Hematology
  • Spherocytes
  • Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
  • Peripheral Blood Smear
  • Spherocytosis
  • Malignancy
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Smudge Cell
  • CLL
  • Romanowsky Stain
  • AIHA

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3DJ58X9R

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International