1.1 POJA-L550+551-HV. Contamination with squamous cell cells in peripheral blood smear (A) and in a bone marrow smear (B) (human)

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1.1  POJA-L550+551-HV

Title: Contamination with squamous cell cells in peripheral blood smear (A) and in a bone marrow smear (B) (human)
 
Description: Stain: May-Grünwald-Giemsa (MGG).

​In blood and bone marrow smears incidentally squamous epithelial cells from the skin tissues are found.

(A-1): Is an epithelial cell from the keratinized stratified (upper) epidermis;

(A-2):  A young neutrophil with a few vacuoles in the cytoplasm (probably degeneration).

(B-1): The large nuclei in B-1 are derived from squamous cells.

​(B-2):  Shows myeloid cells.
 
Keywords/Mesh: blood, bone marrow, myeloid cell, squamous epithelial cell, vacuole, histology, POJA collection