title: Blood smear examination.
abstract: Despite recent advances in the automation of clinical hematology laboratories, a careful microscopic examination of an appropriately prepared and stained blood smear continues to maintain its status as the most informative and useful diagnostic procedure, and offers a simple, reliable means of verifying results generated by automated analyzers. A systematic approach to a comprehensive evaluation of blood cells and related findings is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Gulati
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Hyun
mesh_terms: D001772:Blood Cell Count; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology; D008853:Microscopy; D013194:Staining and Labeling