WBCs

• The Basics
• Reactive
• Leukemic

• The Basics
• Diseases

Sources of Error

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• Always remember the numbers must match the clinical situation.
• Hard as it is to believe, mistakes do happen.
• Sampling errors (the cellular elements must be kept evenly suspended for the machine to make an accurate measurement).
• Clerical errors.
• Quantity and quality of cellular elements are both reported in a CBC.
• Number
• Size
• Population distribution
• Presence of abnormal, immature or reactive cells.
• Cells that just don't belong (circulating cancer cells).