UAMS HEMATOLOGY LAB PRACTICAL
#1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Prepare within 5 hours after specimen collection. If tube remains at room temp after 5
hours, there can be too many artifacts, red cells can appear as echinocytes, white cells
can become denatured, and platelets can clump or agglutinate. - Correct Answers -How
do you properly prepare a blood smear slide?
Tear drop - Correct Answers -What cell is due to an enlarged spleen?
Howell-Jolly bodies - Correct Answers -Which inclusion is DNA, seen post-splenectomy,
with megaloblastic anemias, and some hemolytic anemias?
Reticulocytes - Correct Answers -Which inclusions are RNA, associated with decreased
RBC survival and erythroid hyperplasia?
Pappenheimer bodies - Correct Answers -Which inclusion is iron, seen with thalassemia
and sideroblastic anemia?
It will make the feathered edge jagged looking. - Correct Answers -What will a chipped
or rough edge spreader slide do to a blood smear?
They produce blocks on the slide. - Correct Answers -What will jerky motions do to a
blood smear?
The smear will be pointed - Correct Answers -What will a spreader slide pushed too
quickly produced?
The smear will appear too short and blunt - Correct Answers -What will a drop of blood
too small produce on a blood smear? Or the angle of spread slide too steep produce?
The smear will appear as a long skinny line - Correct Answers -What will a drop of blood
not allowed to spread produce on a blood smear?
Smear will have little holes in it - Correct Answers -What will a dirty or greasy slide
produce on a blood smear? Or increased lipids in a sample?
#1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Prepare within 5 hours after specimen collection. If tube remains at room temp after 5
hours, there can be too many artifacts, red cells can appear as echinocytes, white cells
can become denatured, and platelets can clump or agglutinate. - Correct Answers -How
do you properly prepare a blood smear slide?
Tear drop - Correct Answers -What cell is due to an enlarged spleen?
Howell-Jolly bodies - Correct Answers -Which inclusion is DNA, seen post-splenectomy,
with megaloblastic anemias, and some hemolytic anemias?
Reticulocytes - Correct Answers -Which inclusions are RNA, associated with decreased
RBC survival and erythroid hyperplasia?
Pappenheimer bodies - Correct Answers -Which inclusion is iron, seen with thalassemia
and sideroblastic anemia?
It will make the feathered edge jagged looking. - Correct Answers -What will a chipped
or rough edge spreader slide do to a blood smear?
They produce blocks on the slide. - Correct Answers -What will jerky motions do to a
blood smear?
The smear will be pointed - Correct Answers -What will a spreader slide pushed too
quickly produced?
The smear will appear too short and blunt - Correct Answers -What will a drop of blood
too small produce on a blood smear? Or the angle of spread slide too steep produce?
The smear will appear as a long skinny line - Correct Answers -What will a drop of blood
not allowed to spread produce on a blood smear?
Smear will have little holes in it - Correct Answers -What will a dirty or greasy slide
produce on a blood smear? Or increased lipids in a sample?
