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The diagnosis for mystery case #14

The diagnosis for mystery case #14

Impressing – A lot of good comments and answers on this case!

The diagnosis

The cells with a flower like pattern are as many of you wrote metastatic breast cancer cells.

The patient has a history of breast cancer and unfortunately these metastatic breast cancer cells were now found in her spinal fluid.

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Thanks and more to come!

 

 

Posted on March 5, 2013 by CellaVision News Blast | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment
Resolves skills shortage at small sites

Resolves skills shortage at small sites

– Why should a patient have to travel to a major healthcare facility when their blood smear can be sent digitally to our main lab? This conclusion was made by Tom Clancy at University Health Networks in Toronto, Canada, after testing our new cell morphology system for networked hospitals and associated laboratories this past winter – the CellaVision® Image Capture System.

If you are a small lab performing up to 15 cell differentials per day and are not within easy reach of morphology expertise, you will most likely agree with Mr Clancy. Using your existing microscope, our Image Capture System helps you to find, focus and capture cell images and… Read more »

Posted on May 22, 2012 by CellaVision News Blast | Tagged , , | Leave a comment
Challenging the high volume of smears

Challenging the high volume of smears

Introduction
The advances in automated blood cell counter successfully provide the precise data of WBC, RBC, and platelet counts with leukocyte differentials. However, the differential information by blood cell counters is limited for cell morphologic features especially for abnormal and immature cells, and the morphological smear reviews triggered by specific flagging of automated analyzer are necessary. The criteria for manual action is depending on local guidelines, and review rates have been reported to vary from 9.9% – 50% in different laboratories 1.

At Juntendo University Hospital, Japan (1,020 beds, 4,000 outpatients/day, 1,500 CBCs/day), manual screens of blood smears were performed on 29.2% of CBC determinations. Under the requirements for faster… Read more »

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Yoko Tabe, MD, Juntendo University Hospital, Japan | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment
B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)

B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)

Cellavision-assisted identification of subtle blasts in a blood smear from a patient with B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)

B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) can have morphology very similar to mature lymphocytes, but  modern hematology analyzers reliably will alert the operator with a “blast” flag (1, 2).  However, since these same analyzers have a significant false positive “blast” flagging rate (3, 4), most clinical laboratories will report possible leukemic blasts only after confirming their presence by manual microscopic review of stained blood smears.  Identification of ALL blasts in some smears requires experienced, expert interpretation, a resource not always readily available in many clinical laboratories.  CellaVision® DM96, an automated medical microscopy analyzer, allows remote access to images… Read more »

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Elizabeth Broome, MD, University of California, San Diego, USA | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment
Acute promyelocytic leukemia

Acute promyelocytic leukemia

A 36-year old Caucasian male without a relevant medical history was admitted to the emergency ward of a local hospital (Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, The Netherlands), because of acute chest pain. An anterolateral myocardial infarct was diagnosed (laboratory results showed: Troponine-T: 0,35 µg/L (elevated) and CK: 453 U/L (elevated)) and  the patient was referred to the cardiology department of the nearest university hospital (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) for a percutaneous coronary revascularization procedure.

In the meantime the digital microscope, DM96 (Cellavision, Lund, Sweden), present at the local hospital, detected two blast cells with Auer rods in a routine 200-cell peripheral blood morphology screening. In combination with the acute coronary… Read more »

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Jürgen Riedl, PhD, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, the Netherlands | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments