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Peripheral Smear
Aka: Peripheral Smear, Peripheral Blood Film, Peripheral Blood Smear, Blood Film
- See Also
- Complete Blood Count
- Bone Marrow Exam
- Technique: Staining
- Staining
- Avoid water contamination
- Romanowsky variants based on methylene blue and eosin
- Wright Stain (Sodium Bicarbonate)
- May-Grunwald-Giemsa Stain (acid bichromate)
- Slide evaluation
- Evaluate for adequate sample under 10x power
- Cell exam under oil immersion lens at 50x or higher
- Labs
- See Erythrocyte Morphology
- See Leukocyte Morphology
- See Platelet Morphology
- References
- Lee (1999) Wintrobe's Hematology, Lippincott, p. 23-25