Table 3.

Proposed morphologies required for fellow competency at graduation

White blood cellsRed blood cellsPlatelets
Atypical lymphocyte (reactive) Acanthocyte Platelet clumping (satellitism) 
Band Agglutination (RBC) Platelet (giant) 
Basophil Basophilic stippling Platelet (normal) 
Blast (undifferentiated) Bite cell Thrombocytopenia 
Döhle bodies Blister cell  
Dysplastic neutrophil Burr cell  
Eosinophil Heinz body  
Hairy cell Howell-Jolly body  
Hypersegmented neutrophil Hypochromia  
Hypogranular neutrophil Macrocytic  
LGL Microcyte  
Lymphocyte (mature) Nucleated RBC  
Metamyelocyte Ovalocyte  
Morula (inclusion) Polychromatophil  
Myeloblast with Auer rod Ring form (malaria)  
Myelocyte Schistocyte  
Neutrophil Sickle cell  
Neutrophil with toxic granulation Spherocyte  
Plasma cell Stomatocyte  
Promyelocyte Target cell  
 Teardrop (dacrocyte)  
 Tetrad (babesia)  
White blood cellsRed blood cellsPlatelets
Atypical lymphocyte (reactive) Acanthocyte Platelet clumping (satellitism) 
Band Agglutination (RBC) Platelet (giant) 
Basophil Basophilic stippling Platelet (normal) 
Blast (undifferentiated) Bite cell Thrombocytopenia 
Döhle bodies Blister cell  
Dysplastic neutrophil Burr cell  
Eosinophil Heinz body  
Hairy cell Howell-Jolly body  
Hypersegmented neutrophil Hypochromia  
Hypogranular neutrophil Macrocytic  
LGL Microcyte  
Lymphocyte (mature) Nucleated RBC  
Metamyelocyte Ovalocyte  
Morula (inclusion) Polychromatophil  
Myeloblast with Auer rod Ring form (malaria)  
Myelocyte Schistocyte  
Neutrophil Sickle cell  
Neutrophil with toxic granulation Spherocyte  
Plasma cell Stomatocyte  
Promyelocyte Target cell  
 Teardrop (dacrocyte)  
 Tetrad (babesia)  

LGL, large granular lymphocyte; RBC, red blood cells.

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