Table 2 Findings among individual smears requested for select indications

Leukocytosis

• Atypical / variant lymphoid cells

• Findings consistent with a hemoglobinopathy

• Leukemia or blasts

• Rouleaux

Anemia

• Atypical/variant lymphoid cells

• Dysplasia

• Findings consistent with a hemoglobinopathy

• Hemolysis

• Leukemia or blasts

• Other

• Platelet abnormality

• Rouleaux

Leukopenia

• Atypical/variant lymphoid cells

• Dysplasia

• Findings consistent with a hemoglobinopathy

• Hemolysis

• Leukemia or blasts

• Platelet abnormality

Thrombocytopenia

• Atypical/variant lymphoid cells

• Dysplasia

• Hemolysis

• Leukemia or blasts

• Platelet abnormality

• Rouleaux

Hemolysis

• Dysplasia

• Findings consistent with a hemoglobinopathy

• Hemolysis

• Leukemia or blasts

• Other

• Platelet abnormality

• Rouleaux