T-ALL - Slide 3
An acute leukemia with 70% blasts showing T-lymphocytic markers. The blasts are fairly small and, similar to reactive lymphocytes, allow themselves to be squeezed between erythrocytes. However, the important difference is the relatively large nucleus with irregular shape and fine chromatin pattern.
Blasts
Promyelocytes
Myelocytes
Metamyelocytes
Segments
Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Smudged
XN Scatterplots
Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Neutrophils & Basophils
Eosinophils
Leukocytes
Basophils
NRBCs
Debris
Erythrocytes
Reticulocytes
RBC fragments
Platelets
immature platelets
Immunophenotype
sCD3-
cyCD3+
CD2-
CD5+
CD7+
TdT+
Peripheral blood
Blasts
Blasts
Smudged
