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Congenital Pelger-Huet anomaly

Congenital Pelger-Huet anomaly
#00016892
Author: Teaching collection of Vicky Smith
Category: Laboratory Hematology > Basic cell morphology > Morphologic variants of white blood cells
Published Date: 03/07/2013

A benign dominantly inherited defect of terminal neutrophil differentiation due to mutations in the lamin B receptor gene. Leukocytes have dumbbell-shaped bilobed nuclei, a reduced number of nuclear segments, and coarse clumping of the nuclear chromatin