Hematography Case Studies

Case 1	Case 2	Case 3	Case 4	Case 5	Case 6
Case 7	Case 8	Case 9	Case 10	Case 11	Case 12
Case 13	Case 14	Case 15	Case 16	Case 17	Case 18
Case 19	Case 20	Case 21	Case 22	Case 23	Case 24
Case 25	Case 26	Case 27	Case 28	Case 29	Case 30
Case 31	Case 32	Case 33	Case 34	Case 35	Case 36

These 36 HEMATOGRAPHY Case Studies were added to the Web site between October, 1997 and September, 2000. The cases are factual and reflect medical practice of that time. They have not been embellished or updated in any way.
Each case illustrates a different hematologic disorder, and includes:
- A microscopic field showing the morphologic alterations seen on the patient's blood (and/or bone marrow) smear.
- Relevant findings from the patient's history and physical examination.
- Results of the automated CBC and the microscopic differential.
- Three general questions relating to the case:
  1. What morphologic alterations are seen in this blood smear field?
  2. What further laboratory studies, if any, are indicated?
  3. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- The answers to these three questions.
- A brief summary of the patient's clinical course.
Educators: HEMATOGRAPHY case studies are designed to be open-ended. Utilize the data presented here to create additional study questions that are appropriate for your students.
Developer of Case Studies: Karen G. Lofsness, M.S., associate professor emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota.
Medical consultant for Case Studies: Phuong L. Nguyen, M.D., formerly of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota.


	With the Hematography process, selected cells are isolated from several different microscopic photographs of the patient's blood or bone marrow smear, then combined to produce a representative field illustrating that case. If the patient's own red cells and platelets were morphologically normal, we may have (in the interest of expediency and our own sanity) substituted a standard normal RBC/platelet background field for the patient's normochromic, normocytic cells. The significant cells in the field (whether they are red cells, white cells, and/or platelets) are always from the patient described in the case study.

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