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. 2020 Sep 28:7:2374289520953568.
doi: 10.1177/2374289520953568. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Educational Case: Hematologic and Immunologic Response to Allergic Rhinitis With Other Causes of Leukocytosis

Sean Andre Bennett  1 , Neil Harris  1 , Joanna Chaffin  1 , Stacy Beal  1
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Educational Case: Hematologic and Immunologic Response to Allergic Rhinitis With Other Causes of Leukocytosis

Sean Andre Bennett et al. Acad Pathol. .

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.1.

Keywords: basophilia; eosinophilia; hematopathology; leukocytosis; monocytosis; neutrophilia; organ system pathology; pathology competencies.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Blood: two eosinophils. Note the orange granules, and nuclear lobes connected by filaments (500× magnification).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Blood: (from left to right) eosinophil, neutrophil, basophil (500× magnification).
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Blood: (from left to right) monocyte, neutrophil with toxic granulation (500× magnification).
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Blood: (from left to right) eosinophil, monocyte (500× magnification).
Figure 5.
Figure 5.
Blood: lymphocyte (1000× magnification).
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