Scientific Image Gallery
<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>Cell description: </p> <p>Size: larger than normal lymphocytes </p> <p>Nucleus: round, oval, dumbbell-shaped or bilobed with little chromatin condensation and sometimes indistinct nucleolus </p> <p>Cytoplasm: abundant weakly basophilic with irregular “hairy” margins</p>
<p>Peripheral blood (May-Grünwald-Giemsa stain) of a patient with hairy cell leukaemia. A typical hairy cell (->) can easily be distinguished from a normal lymphocyte (lower right).</p>
<p>Hairy cell from a hairy cell leukaemia. Typical are the monocytic type nuclei with loose chromatin, and the grey-blue, heterogeneous cytoplasm. The hairy protrusions may be missing in some cases.</p>
<p>Hairy cell leukaemia-variant (HCL-V).</p>
<p>Cell description: </p> <p>Size: larger than normal lymphocytes </p> <p>Nucleus: round, oval, dumbbell-shaped or bilobed with little chromatin condensation and sometimes indistinct nucleolus </p> <p>Cytoplasm: abundant weakly basophilic with irregular “hairy” margins</p>
<p>This 'hairy' lymphocyte comes from a person suffering from an active infection (without any malignant disease). The granula identify it as a T or an NK cell.</p>
<p>Reticulocyte staining. Characteristic HbH cell in a case of α-thalassaemia. Today, blood films are no longer investigated for HbH cells. Instead, </p> <p>α-thalassaemias are diagnosed by molecular genetic tests.</p>