BACKGROUND The International Consensus Group for Hematology Review recommends manual blood smears for new findings from automated complete blood cell (CBC) tests. However, in outpatients, the rate of peripheral manual blood smear reviews is uncertain, as is the effect of historical results on this rate. METHODS In a prospective cohort study of 687,955 members of a health maintenance organizat...

An 80 year old woman developed fever 11 days after volvulus surgery. A peripheral blood smear showed numerous yeast cells--both extraleucocytic and intraleucocytic--as well as leucoagglutination. The fungal elements included blastospores, pseudohyphae, and germ tubes. Two days later, blood cultures yielded Candida albicans, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Staphlococcus aureus. The patient had no me...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), a parameter that is reported as a part of a standard complete blood count by automated analyzer, is a measure of the concentration of hemoglobin in a given volume of packed red blood cell. Values of MCHC significantly above reference range are not physiologically possible due to limitations on solubility of hemoglobin. The high MCHC can give us ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the immature neutrophil (band) count in the peripheral blood smear helps to distinguish young febrile children with bacterial or respiratory viral infections. DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective cohort study in 3 pediatric emergency departments. PATIENTS A convenience sample of 100 febrile children aged 2 years or younger with either laboratory-documented bacteri...

In recent years, Peripheral blood smear is a generic analysis to assess the person’s health status. Manual testing of images are difficult, time-consuming and subject human intervention visual error. This method encouraged for researchers present algorithms techniques perform peripheral with help computer-assisted decision-making techniques. Existing CAD based methods lacks in attaining accurat...