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A 32 year old garbage collector was working one Tuesday afternoon, when he slipped on the side of a dumpster and cut himself deeply on his left arm. He bandaged himself up and went on with work normally for the rest of the week. On Friday, he experienced symptoms of fever, chills and disorientation, so he went to the Emergency Room.  Upon arrival, the physician noted redness and swelling of the laceration on the patient’s left arm. The attending physician ordered a CBC.CBC Results:                     WBC                    19.0 x 109/L                                    RBC       3.45 x 1012/L                                           Platelets             210,000/uL                                     Hgb       10.0 g/dL                                                                                                                                 Hct        30% Which of the white blood cell pictures below would be the most expected when performing the manual differential on this patient?

Cytoplasmic vacuoles in monocytes on a peripheral blood smear are:

Which of the following criteria is not consistent with a diagnosis of Primary Myelofibrosis (PMF)?

Which of the following is not a distinguishing criterion used in the World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Hematological Neoplasms?

Which of the following best describes a proto-oncogene?

The main treatment for Polycythemia Vera (PV) is:

Which of the following fits the description of a bone marrow cell stained with Prussian blue iron stain: “a nucleated red blood cell having equal to or greater than 5 iron granules arranged around nucleus, encircling at least 1/3 of the perimeter”?

Which of the following is not a dysplastic change seen in the bone marrow of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)?

Which of the following would be consistent with Infectious Mononucleosis?

Which of the following statements regarding Pelger-Huet Anomaly is TRUE?