Scientific Image Gallery
<p>Large number of echinocytes of a healthy individual resulting from prolonged storage of the EDTA blood (48 hours).</p>
<p>The edge of a correctly prepared blood film from a normal blood sample. Relatively few white blood cells can be seen in this example.</p>
<p>The endothelial cells are part of the vascular wall, which was damaged during venepuncture. (Blood coagulation was activated during the process: on the bottom left a fibrin fibre can be recognised.)</p>
<p>Size: 12-17 µm </p> <p>Nucleus: usually bilobed with visible filament </p> <p>Cytoplasm: weekly basophilic containing coarse reddish-orange granulation packing the cytoplasm </p> <p>Function: Phagocytosis, chemotaxis, mortification of parasites, inhibition of mastcell degranulation, eutralization of histamine</p>
<p>Epithelial cells in a drop of saliva containing streptococci.</p>
<p>Pronounced erythrocytosis (polyglobulia) can often already be recognised after sedimentation of the red blood cells. Left tube: haematocrit 82%, right tube: haematocrit 39%.</p>
<p>The bone marrow cytology (May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain) of a patient with ET shows a clear increase in exceptionally large megakaryocytes.</p>
<p>Reddish striations caused by extreme haemolysis in a case of septicaemia caused by Clostridium perfringens.</p>
<p>Extreme thrombocytosis (3,400,000/μL) in chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML, bcr-abl+); on the right a basophilic granulocyte.</p>