12 year old with dizziness, anemia and jaundice

A 21-Year-Old Student with Fever and Profound Jaundice

1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 2 Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 4 Leptospirosis Unit, Central Diagnostics Laboratories National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Pl...

A 12-year-old girl with pneumonia.

This 12-year-old girl was transferred from an outside hospital for treatment of pneumonia. She had been well until 7 days before admission, when she developed what was felt to be cellulitis of her left lower extremity. She was given intravenous clindamycin, and the swelling and erythema improved. However, the following day, she started having respiratory distress, and she was found to have an i...

A 28-year-old man with leukocytosis and anemia.

Figure 2. Bone marrow aspirate smear demonstrating blasts of myeloid lineage. Figure 1. Peripheral blood smear showing a myeloblast.

A 17-Year-Old Girl With Weight Loss and Anemia

Platelet Satellitism in a Three and Half Year Old Girl with Hemolytic Anemia and Normal Platelet Count

Platelet adherence surrounding leucocytes in a rosette formation or platelet satellitism is a rare phenomenon. This finding has been observed almost exclusively in Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid treated blood at room temperature. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is not fully understood. In many reports of platelet satellitism platelets clump to polymorphonuclear neutrophils in healthy...