Challenge: Your medical student thinks this is a band in a patient with myelodysplasia, but you know better; what is it?
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Monday, March 18, 2013
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a hyposegmented neutrophil.
yep!
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Band
This is a Pelger-Huet anomaly, a benign dominantly inherited defect of neutrophil differentiation. The blood smear shows a neutrophil with a bilobed nucleus. The arrow shows a thin strand connecting the two lobes, thinner than normally seen in bands.
Source: UpToDate.
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