Thursday, June 11, 2009

Bone Marrow under the Microscope

The following images of bone marrow smears were stained with a modified Wright-Giemsa stain.


Captured at 100x magnification, this image is a bone marrow smear from a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Captured at 1000x magnification, this image is a bone marrow smear of a myeloma case. You may noticed the binucleated plasmacyte, partly covered by the word "World".

These images were captured using a biological laboratory microscope.