Scientific Image Gallery
Welcome to our Scientific Image Gallery. Here you can find real-life examples of cell images, mostly (but not only) from peripheral blood films, that illustrate typical morphologic characteristics pointing to specific conditions or disorders. This constitutes their diagnostic value.
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<p>Giant platelets have their name derived from their size exceeding the size of a normal red blood cell. </p>
<p>Giant platelet with prominent granulation from a patient with essential thrombocythaemia (ET). (Defective haematopoiesis causes detectable poikilocytosis.)</p>
<p>Peripheral blood (May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain) of a patient with essential thrombocythaemia, ET. Giant platelets (->) are frequently observed in this disease.</p>
<p>Granulated blasts have a size of 12 - 16 µm and show significant reddish granules in their cytoplasm. The shape of the nucleus is round or oval with a very high nucleocytoplasmic ratio of 70 – 95%. </p> <p>The chromatin is predominantly regularly distributed and neither clumped nor condensed. The nucleus has a varying number of nucleoli which may be hidden by the chromatin. </p>
<p>Granulated blasts have a size of 12 – 16 µm and show significant reddish granules in their cytoplasm. The shape of the nucleus is round or oval with a very high nucleocytoplasmic ratio of 70 – 95%. </p> <p>The chromatin is predominantly regularly distributed and neither clumped nor condensed. The nucleus has a varying number of nucleoli which may be hidden by the chromatin. </p>
<p>Normal granulocyte of a healthy individual.</p>
<p>Granulocytes with typical reddish granulation of a patient treated with granulocyte growth factor (G-CSF).</p>
<p>Basophils are rarely seen in peripheral blood of guinea pigs. They are only slightly larger than heterophils, have a lobulated homogeneously purple-staining nucleus and numerous round violet granules of varying size.</p>