Statistical reflections on finding atypical cells.
In practice, the presence of atypical cells among leukocytes will only be recognized with reasonable certainty (greater than 95%) in a 100-cell differential if the percentage is five or more. With automated flow cytochemistry, the corresponding limit will usually be approximately 2.3%.
D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic